Update! I updated the examples with the import statement, as I got a lot of questions about the "FlashFeed not found" error. Offcourse, as in all of AS3, you have to import the classes before you can use them. Also remember to add the classes to your classpath or copy the com folder into the same folder as your .fla file.

Even though the FlashFeed component is still in a very early stage (I have no time to develop it further right now), I get a lot of questions from people asking how to use the FlashFeed Actionscript 3 class.

Most of them go wrong when trying to type the whole URL to their article, like www.mysite.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&format=xml. But the FlashFeed does all this automatically for you, so you only have to write the URL to your site and use the FlashFeed methods.

Here is a number of samples that show exactly how to write the Actionscript...

This loads an XML file with the data from the article with an id of 5

import com.runemadsen.joomla.*;

var joomlaData:FlashFeed = new FlashFeed("http://www.myjoomlasite.com");
joomlaData.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleData);
joomlaData.loadArticleByID(5);

function handleData(e:Event):void
{
    trace(joomlaData.data); // outputs the XML file
}

This load an XML file with data from all the articles in the category with an id of 1

import com.runemadsen.joomla.*;

var joomlaData:FlashFeed = new FlashFeed("http://www.myjoomlasite.com");
joomlaData.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleData);
joomlaData.loadCategoryByID(1);

function handleData(e:Event):void
{
    trace(joomlaData.data); // outputs the XML file
}

This load an XML file with data from all the articles in the section with an id of 1

import com.runemadsen.joomla.*;

var joomlaData:FlashFeed = new FlashFeed("http://www.myjoomlasite.com");
joomlaData.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleData);
joomlaData.loadSectionByID(5);

function handleData(e:Event):void
{
 trace(joomlaData.data); // outputs the XML file
}

This load an XML file with data from all the articles on the frontpage

import com.runemadsen.joomla.*;

var joomlaData:FlashFeed = new FlashFeed("http://www.myjoomlasite.com");
joomlaData.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleData);
joomlaData.loadFrontpage();

function handleData(e:Event):void
{
    trace(joomlaData.data); // outputs the XML file
}

Please remember to change the http://www.myjoomlasite.com with you sites URL - without the index.php part...