Hi All,
I was wondering if there is anyone out there using any AS3 CMS components? I did a little research and found a few, but they’re for AS2 not AS3. I’ll continue my search, but if someone has come across something please let me know.
I don’t know of any, but if you are looking to create a CMS for a Flash site, the front end certainly doesn’t need to be created in Flash. You could always download and install prewritten CMS software, then just have a server side script or XML pass the data into the Flash site, making it dynamic.
Flash isn’t a CMS system, a CMS system uses some type of data source that is updated through a GUI. The CMS could be created in Flash but why? What exactly are you looking for?
JSON and or XML are a great data sources, but I’d probably go with mySQL for original data storage then use something like XML or JSON for Flash to load and parse.
Hope that helped.
I ran across this CMS tool on Flash Loaded and it allowed you to modify the flash content directly from the page. I thought that was pretty interesting but it was only available for AS2 so I was just looking into something similar for AS3. Usually what I do is just pull the data from my DB into a dynamic XML file. Building the admin section and all of the forms to submit the data from the admin section is usually a lengthy process for me so I’m just trying to find ways to speed things up.
You could create a class for managing a website from inside flash… so that the user is always working on the same flash environment (yeah some users get confused when working on a “separate website” to manage the data 
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Flash CMS Class Form >> XML >> PHP/ASP/etc (Cookie verification!) >> MySQL/etc
But IMO it’s easier for everyone to do the content mangement in an html/css environment. It’s cheaper to produce and easier to maintain that kind of CMS, plus you have tons of ready made solutions you can adapt to your needs.
Even if you manage to put the forms in the flash website so that the user can upload/edit content, you will need some kind of cms for editing and creating internal tables. So IMO it makes more sense to have the whole data mangement in one place.
Where I work we have developped our own html/css CMS. Now we can create dynamic xmls in a few clicks, so even a designer can create the needed tables for such project, and the dynamic xml that will feed flash without needing a programmer. All users can start uploading content while the designers produce the flash.
[QUOTE=ahmednuaman;2340338]I recently finished building a Flash based site that’s powered by a CMS. I used http://www.cmsmadesimple.org and customised the templates to output XML. Simple.[/QUOTE]
Sounds good, I’ll take a try
