I'm creating a flash based website the site has text and Imary. the site is a content rich flash (action script) site. I'm required to have a CMS so that the user could and content upload images to appropiate sections in the CMS and the out put will be a XML that would be read by the action script. does the umbraco back end provide the facility extend and customize to suit the above requirement
You don't need to make any customization or extentions to be able to serve the content from umbraco as XML for your flash website.
Since the content from Umbraco can be fetched by creating XSLT macros you can serve the different pages as XML for your flash files.
An approach I have used myself is to create the different content types asigning them templates and then creating XSLT macros to generetate the XML on the templates indstead of HTML.
I also think that it is actually possible to use umbraco /Base to achieve this but I haven't tried it out for myself yet though. You can read more about base here: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-base
Thank you for your reply. The flash site has collection of thumbnail images each thumbnail image has its large image. but from the umbraco backend only a large image is uploaded. the large image has to be auto resized to create a tumbnail. how would I do this is their any video/PDF docs on umbraco avance development.
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I'm creating a flash based website the site has text and Imary. the site is a content rich flash (action script) site. I'm required to have a CMS so that the user could and content upload images to appropiate sections in the CMS and the out put will be a XML that would be read by the action script. does the umbraco back end provide the facility extend and customize to suit the above requirement
Thank You
Dilrukshan
Hi
You don't need to make any customization or extentions to be able to serve the content from umbraco as XML for your flash website.
Since the content from Umbraco can be fetched by creating XSLT macros you can serve the different pages as XML for your flash files.
An approach I have used myself is to create the different content types asigning them templates and then creating XSLT macros to generetate the XML on the templates indstead of HTML.
Recently there has also been added some videos about how to serve umbraco content to flash, which you can see here: http://umbraco.tv/documentation/videos/for-developers/rich-internet-applications/sending-data-from-flash-to-umbraco and here http://umbraco.tv/documentation/videos/for-developers/rich-internet-applications/loading-umbraco-data-into-flash - Please note that you have to pay a minor fee of 19$ for a month to access these videos. But that's really a bargain! And I would highly recommend it if you choose to move on with Umbraco.
I also think that it is actually possible to use umbraco /Base to achieve this but I haven't tried it out for myself yet though. You can read more about base here: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-base
I hope this answers some of your questions.
/Jan
Thank you for your reply. The flash site has collection of thumbnail images each thumbnail image has its large image. but from the umbraco backend only a large image is uploaded. the large image has to be auto resized to create a tumbnail. how would I do this is their any video/PDF docs on umbraco avance development.
Thanks
Dilrukshan
I think you should be able to use imageGen to make the thumbnail version of the images.
imageGen is a part of the package repository where you can install it from and read the documentation.
I hope this helps.
/Jan
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