# Seeking Advice - Flash Site with CMS

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/seeking-advice-flash-site-with-cms/303013
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 12, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/seeking-advice-flash-site-with-cms/303013 "2010-01-12T13:13:05Z")
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### Author: ![e\_owen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df788c/32.png) [@e\_owen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/e_owen)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/seeking-advice-flash-site-with-cms/303013/1 "2010-01-12T13:13:05Z")

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Hello,  
Am wondering what the best solution will be for a Flash site that also requires a CMS for the client to alter the content - particularly images and text. My first thought was to use XML and teach the client to modify it but they want a UI to do this in. I am more comfortable with XML than PHP but prepared to use the latter if it offers a better solution.

So far as I can see there are two (possibly 3) parts to this:

1. Flash site running from XML / PHP
2. CMS Application to used upload images (into a category), add text, etc.
3. Database?

If using XML, I imagine the CMS app would be built in Flex and output an XML document to be uploaded by the client as well as write/upload the image files as required. I realise this would probably require PHP.

If using PHP and a database I dont really know where to start so advice is more than welcome. Is there a PHP class that does something like this out there?

Hope the above is clear.

Thanks,  
Elliot