Hey everyone. First time posting although I’ve come here quite often for flash help. Anyway, I have a rather complex question which involves flash, xml, probably php and who knows what else. I want to have a flash player which will generate a slide show based on xml info provided from a server (via an RSS feed or something like that).
The situation is that here at my college, we have a server which hosts a large amount of student work which we want to play on our home page in a flash player via a slideshow style. We want it to randomly pull these images (that part probably done in flash) from the server which will send XML info out through some means. At this point the guys who are running the server said the most likely way of doing it would be through RSS feed although I personally don’t know what specific info runs through those. But if it includes XML, I can parse it and either generate an XML file or send the info straight on to the flash player.
I’ve been searching high and low on the net for info and the best thing I’ve found so far is flash’s own tutorial on an XML slideshow which is great and works, but it only covers the flash part of it. I need to get the XML/PHP/RSS to work with it now.
So my first question would be, is there a way that I can call/generate an XML list of files in a folder, say at a specific location on the server, to pass on to Flash, either using PHP, MySQL or something in HTML?
I know this is crazy complex, but even if I can get pieces of info to work with, I can put the puzzle together and I’ll gladly share my results with all the info as I’m sure this is something that is done but the process is not largely disclosed because of its complexity.
Thanks everyone.
