# RSS the way to go?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rss-the-way-to-go/163985>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [September 27, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rss-the-way-to-go/163985 "2005-09-27T20:13:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hastalasiesta](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/hastalasiesta/32/1773_2.png) [@Hastalasiesta](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Hastalasiesta)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rss-the-way-to-go/163985/1 "2005-09-27T20:13:34Z")

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Hello peoples.  
I’m just about to start what for me is a rather ambitious project in flash.

To shortly describe my confusion at this as of yet early stage;  
I need to create a site that can be managed by the (not very tech savvy) client. I’ve earlier set up a simple php/mysql blog for the same client that he seems comfortable with. (I used [Serendipity](http://www.s9y.org).  
Searching for the obvious “Flash CMS” and “Flash + PHP” gives me a host of different solutions that seem to have in common that they do not really work all that well and/or are very complicated to code for in flash.  
However I see that there are several resources on creating a RSS reader in flash.

So what I’m thinking is this; wouldn’t the obvious solution be to just create a RSS reader in a movieclip to handle the ‘news’ section through a weblog interface like Serendipity instead of going through the effort of coding together a CMS from scratch?  
Are there some issues with this apporach that I’m missing? Have I simply not found the easy approach to publishing directly from mySql to flash?  
Am I going about this in entirely the wrong way?

Thoughts would be appreciated.

-m