Flash to WordPress Guide and Code

“Ever Since I launched my Flash website with a WordPress backend, I have received numerous emails and comments asking me how I did it. Today I will make available some of the PHP code I wrote to extract Data from WordPress in an XML format. I have also created a diagram and explanation on how my website works to hopefully assist anyone else who wants to try the same thing. I should point out that I haven’t made available an end to end solution, you will still need to do a lot of work, but I hope that I have provided a good starting point. The PHP Script makes an SQL query to a MYSQL database holding the WordPress Data. The PHP Script then formats the data into XML. This then can be loaded by your Flash Website. There are functions to retrieve Posts and create Menus.” - via tvwonline.net

Can it get more fun than this?
Sure, but it’s still very cool. With the addition of the Nintendo Wii internet browser comes the chance to access websites. What better reason than to stream content from your computer to your living room - or wherever you Wii?

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After looking into AJAX, you can’t deny the usage of javascript or xml, they’re in the DOM damn name! Check out my AJAX links when you’re done here.

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Getting started with Ajax as my new goal in life. AJAX is the new new, and is short for “Advanced Javascripting and XML” or “Asynchronous JavaScripting and XML. Essentially it’s DHTML with the xmlhttprequest object thrown in.
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Loading SWFs / Images

• Movie & Image Preloader Woes
• Generic Preloader less than 1k
• Reusable Preloader Using MovieClipLoader
• Tween/AS Preloader
• Including external JPGs (or SWFs) in a Flash movie
• MovieClipLoader.loadClip()
• MovieClipLoader
• Flash MX 2004 introduces MovieClipLoader
• Flash’s New MovieClipLoader Class
• MovieClipLoader Class - Adobe
• zeh.loading.ImageLoader (AS2) - .as

• QueueLoader AS3 rev 7 + Garbage Collection + SoundManager - Donovan
• Sequential Image Loading 2.0 - with php
• Sequential Image Loading
• QueueLoader Class
• LoadQue Class - flash guru
• LoadQue Class - prototype
• LoadQue Class v1.5? - prototype
• QLod-LoaderClass - documentation
• zeh.loading.LoadingQueue (AS2) - .as
• PreloadAssetManager - An Intelligent Preloading Queue

Loading Images

• Image Cache
• Smooth loaded images by default
• Dynamically loading bitmaps with smoothing in Flash Player 8

Loading CSS

• CSS in Flash MX 2004
• Adobe Live Docs
• Using CSS Styles

Loading XML

• Loading XML Into Flash
• BadassXML
• Overcoming XML.onLoad with the XMLLoader class
• XML Classes
• Load XML files with special chars

Loading in AS 3.0

• Load Systems for Actionscript 3
• Actionscript 3 (my sad standards, part 1) Loading
• Using the URLLoader and URLVariables classes
• More about preloading in Flash CS3

MovieClip._lockroot

• Adobe Live Docs

LoadVars

• How to use the LoadVars Class

URL Encoding

• URL Encoding: Reading special characters from a text file
• Generic Object from URL query string

HTML escape sequences

• Converting HTML escape sequences in a string - Darron Schall
• Escape Sequences

In my travels I have heard of the glorious power XML commands. XHTML, XJAX, XAML, RSS, and the list goes on. But I only really care about XML with Flash and getting at my content as fast as possible while being able to traverse it rapidly. So here are a few good links to help speed things up:

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