# \[XML or PHP?\] Easiest way to dynamically manage news + news archive

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**Created:** [March 23, 2005, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-or-php-easiest-way-to-dynamically-manage-news-news-archive/141807 "2005-03-23T10:10:25Z")
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### Author: ![3stripe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/48db29/32.png) [@3stripe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3stripe)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2005, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-or-php-easiest-way-to-dynamically-manage-news-news-archive/141807/1 "2005-03-23T10:10:25Z")

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I need to build a simple system to manage news on a flash site, so that a client can login, and add simple news stories [title, date, news story].

They need to be archived - so that the 5 most recent news stories are shown as title’s on the homepage, and on the news page itself maybe the 10 most recent news stories can be seen in a list of current news, and the rest in a list of archived news beneath this. Always you would just see the title in the list, and the full story in a main text window when you click on it.

I know how to load external text files, and have used basic text files like newsstory1=blahblahblah&newsstory2=nahnahnah&newsstory3=wahwahwah before. I have used very basic PHP before - but from doing some research here and elswhere it seems XML would be a good way to do the above. (Don’t want to use mySQL if possible!)

[http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/news/page003.php and [url=“http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml/examples/newseditor.htm”]http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml/examples/newseditor.htm](http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/news/page003.php) look like a good starting point, but very complicated.

So wandering what is the easiest way to do something like this - even if it was just very crude use of actionscript that saved new stories to a text field, and archived them by number?

Would appreciated your thoughts/help!!!

🙂