Flash XML editor

[Flep]

Hi all !

Great news on the go !

FlashDoes Flash XML editor for free at FlepStudio.

Lets your customers manage their picture galleries

Give them FlashDoes! They will love it and you have no more problems and complaints they can not handle the XML file.

FlashDoes is a fantastic Flash based Image manager and gallery.

You can use it to manage XML data driven picture galleries without ever directly editing the XML. FlashDoes manages the XML data file for you!

Do you have clients who want to use data driven image galleries but don’t know how to edit or upload the XML file? With FlashDoes this is never a problem!

The client can upload, and edit images, descriptions and titles and more.

Multi categories

FlashDoes supports unlimited categories.

No need DataBase !

FlashDoes is supported by PHP and XML.

You don't need a DataBase.

It means very simple installation ( just upload files and set writable permissions -777- ).

Requires at least Flash CS3, Flash Player 9, Actionscript 3.0 .

How does it work

All you have to do is install FlashDoes, done.

Once you installed FlashDoes, access its admin panel and add/remove/edit categories, images, titles and descriptions.

FlashDoes creates the XML file and it update the XML everytime you do an action.

Now load its XML file into your Flash and build your own gallery.

You don't need hard Actionscript codin, just he basics of Flash and XML.

Infact, FlashDoes creates a classic and simple XML format like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<gallery>

<category name="">

<image name="" title="" date="">description</image>

<image name="" title="" date="">description</image>

<image name="" title="" date="">description</image>

</category>

<category name="">

<image name="" title="" date="">description</image>

<image name="" title="" date="">description</image>

</category>

<category name="">

<image name="" title="" date="">description</image>

</category>

</gallery>

6 languages

English - French - Italian - Spanish - German - Portuguese

Interface of FlashDoes supports 6 languages and growing up.

It means that your client may choose the language of interface to feel completely at ease.

Requirements

FlashDoes does NOT need mySQL or any other DataBase.

PHP 4.3 or greater is required.

Flash CS3 or greater.

Note:

Having Adobe Flash is suggested but it's not a must, you can use FlashDoes also for other purposes. For example you can build a javascript or PHP/ASP/JSP/HTML gallery that reads from XML file provided by the interface of FlashDoes.

Things to Know Before Installing FlashDoes

Before you begin the install, there are few things you need to have and do.

You need access to your site and its directory and software to proceed with the installation. These are:

An access to your web server (via shell or FTP).

A text editor.

An FTP Client (if you need to install FlashDoes on a remote server).

In order for PHP scripts to save changes to files and folders you must have the possibility to assign write permissions (777) for individual files and folders.

Your web browser of choice.

Installation

Unzip the downloaded file to a folder on your hard drive.

Place/Upload the "upload" folder and its files in the desired location on your web server ( We suggest to create a folder with name "flashdoes" ).

Set writable permissions (777) to the following files and folders:

- PHP/XML

- PHP/XML/gallery.xml

- images

- all the subfolders of images/

Now point your browser to yourdomain.com/flashdoes/cms.html

Note:

Default username and password are "admin" and "demo1234", we suggest you to change them using the following way:

- Open the file main.fla

- Open the file com/flashdoes/cms/Main.as with a text editor

- Change username and password at lines 23 and 24

- Save the file Main.as and launch main.fla

- Upload the new main.swf on your web server

view EXAMPLE GALLERY 1


source files:

[JANJ@N]

thanks ! its very cool

[kul_shan]

Thank you !!!

I liked it. I was looking for the same.
I think, it needs a Log Out Option too.

In next version, please keep taht point in mind.

ShaanK

[rynzco]

thanks great work

[miaoulis]

interesting Flep, thanks

[rbz]

hi Guys!
very nice work: simple, efective and elegant
thanks for sharing all this knowledge


the portuguese translation has a few typos:

remove_image="QUERES ELIMINAR A IMAGEM?";
no="NÃO";
title_="Título";
already_exist="A categoria já existe"; 

and this ones in spanish:

pass_title="CONTRASEÑA";
login_error="el nombre de usuario o la contraseña no es correcta";
current_categories="CATEGORÍAS ACTUALES";
add_category="AÑADIR CATEGORÍA";
add_="AÑADIR";
cancel="CANCELAR";
add_image="AÑADIR IMAGEN";
list_title="Los siguientes archivos y carpetas DEBEN TENER permisos de escritura (777):";
already_exist="La categoría ya existe"; 

i'm attaching a brazilian portuguese configuration file for anyone who's interested

IMHO there should be a preference setting to select just one language and hide all the flag buttons, usually the clients doesn't speak more than one

thanks again
rudolf

[ANdyTheFlash]

Hey looks very nice but i get an error if i want to change the category:

ArgumentError: Error #2025: Das angegebene DisplayObject muss ein untergeordnetes Element des Aufrufers sein.
at flash.display::Loader/unload()
at com.flashdoes.cms::Images/destroy()
at com.flashdoes.cms::Images/showImages()
at com.flashdoes.cms::Categories/onCombo1Selection()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at fl.controls::ComboBox/onListChange()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at fl.controls::SelectableList/handleCellRendererClick()


lg,
Andy

[Flep]

Hey looks very nice but i get an error if i want to change the category:

ArgumentError: Error #2025: Das angegebene DisplayObject muss ein untergeordnetes Element des Aufrufers sein.
at flash.display::Loader/unload()
at com.flashdoes.cms::Images/destroy()
at com.flashdoes.cms::Images/showImages()
at com.flashdoes.cms::Categories/onCombo1Selection()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at fl.controls::ComboBox/onListChange()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at fl.controls::SelectableList/handleCellRendererClick()


lg,
Andy

I do not get that error, I am checking

[Flep]

Best way to load the XML file into your Flash

Using Actionscript 3.0

Let's say you have installed FlashDoes at yourdomain.com/flashdoes/

You get the XML file with this path: yourdomain.com/flashdoes/PHP/XML/gallery.xml

Declare the variables:

var xml_path:String="http://www.yourdomain.com/flashdoes/PHP/XML/gallery.xmll";

var request:URLRequest=new URLRequest(xml_path);

var loader:URLLoader=new URLLoader();

load the XML:

loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,onXMLcomple te);

loader.load(request);

get the XML data:

function onXMLcomplete(event:Event):void

{

var loader:URLLoader=URLLoader(event.target);

var pure_xml:XML=new XML(loader.data);

var myXML:XMLDocument=new XMLDocument();

myXML.ignoreWhite=true;

myXML.parseXML(pure_xml.toXMLString());

var node:XMLNode=myXML.firstChild;

trace(node);

}

Now you just need to build your own Flash gallery by fetching data from the loaded xml.

IMPORTANT:

The image paths of FlashDoes's XML are relatives ( ie: images/categoryFolder/imageName.jpg ).

When you use them into your Flash you must add the main root ( ie: http://www.yourdomain.com/flashdoes/ ).

That way you will obtain the absolute url of the image:

http://www.yourdomain.com/flashdoes/http://www.flepstudio.org/forum/images/categoryFolder/imageName.jpg

and your Flash will now find it during image loading phase.

[ANdyTheFlash]

Hey Fleps.. the error is only in flashplayer 9 debug now with the 10 version it works.. may this helps....

peace
Andy