# Some advice needed

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**Created:** [July 9, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/some-advice-needed/265494 "2008-07-09T16:00:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![AgentOrange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@AgentOrange](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AgentOrange)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/some-advice-needed/265494/1 "2008-07-09T16:00:07Z")

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Hi all. I’m after some advice regarding the creation of photo slideshows that can be easily updated. I’m a freelance designer and, increasingly, my clients are asking that I design & build for them sites that include a photo slideshow that they can update. Ordinarily I’d use a simple XML setup but a lot of my clients are pretty web-illiterate and they find it too complex.  
I’ve looked at Slideshow Pro and I like it’s ability to load in images from Flickr (something that’s fairly idiot-proof and easy to use) but, unfortunately, it seems to be limited to just 20 images.  
Can anybody help me and point me in the direction of an answer? I should say my actionscript skills are only just above novice.

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**Author:** ![jeffjustice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jeffjustice](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jeffjustice)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/some-advice-needed/265494/2 "2008-07-10T15:12:05Z")

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Maybe this tutorial will help you: [http://www.codervods.com/VideoPage.aspx?ID=1045&&category=Adobe%20Flash](http://www.codervods.com/VideoPage.aspx?ID=1045&&category=Adobe%20Flash)

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**Author:** ![AgentOrange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@AgentOrange](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AgentOrange)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/some-advice-needed/265494/3 "2008-07-11T09:15:40Z")

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Thanks Jeff but that’s not really what I’m after. I can build a perfectly good XML driven photogallery but I’m after something that a client can update via a third party application such as Flickr in a similar way to that employed by Slideshow Pro.

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**Author:** ![saxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@saxx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/saxx)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2008, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/some-advice-needed/265494/4 "2008-07-11T09:32:03Z")

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I’ve looked into the same thing, this site  
[http://fromvega.com/wordpress/2007/05/11/xml-generator-20-php-dom/](http://fromvega.com/wordpress/2007/05/11/xml-generator-20-php-dom/)

has an XML generator so all your guy has to do is upload the images go to a php pageand presto. Though in order to get it to work properly you might have to know some PHP and xml. I don’t know if thats what you wanted, but its a fairly easy alternative