Comments on: First real life Flash/Indexhibit website

By: javier

javier — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:47:38 +0000

Hi Phil,

Thanks a lot for your feedback, I can see from your answer that the that the plugin solution is not desirable, is that because of the poor Indexhibit plugin support? I would say average users would normally prefer an easy to use plugin solution.

Thanks a lot.
Javier.

PS: I am more a WordPress developer so maybe I am a little bit confused with the plugin’s meaning here in the Indexhibit world.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:45:41 +0000

hi javier,
the easiest way to accomplish something you’re describing would be a dynamic xml output via php/mysql. not as a plugin or anything like that – just a plain php file that reads the database and outputs everything as XML (or JSON if you prefer that).

cheers
phil

By: javier

javier — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:11:58 +0000

Hi Phil,

First off all, thanks for such a god job you did here.

Although I am new to Indexhibit I am working to get a similar solution as you got with the Flash Indexhibit Front End but for HTML5 (so to use canvas).

My objective is to first create an XML file with all the info from every Exhibit in de DB (done using some of the Flash Indexhibit front end files right now).

Now I have to get to get the XML file updated every time an Exhibit is published/edited. Some help needed here, please any ideas how to “hook” an action to this via a plugin would be very welcome (can that be achieved via plugin?)

After that we need to somehow change the hole presentation of the site. I am still studing the Flash Frontend code to find out how you did it.

Would somebody else be interested in this kind of plugin?

Any advice in the hole thing would be very welcome as I am new to the Indexhibit CMS and I may be not understanding some key aspects of the system right.

Thanks a lot in advance.
Javier.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:55:47 +0000

hi bernardo,
no – not out of the box. but if you’re an actionscript programmer you could easily create one or two classes that’ll load and display the video.

you would use some kind of meta-tag inside the normal textfield and parse the data that is passed to flash via AMF – if there is a [video url="xxxxxx"] you display a videoplayer on the site … that’s it.

phil

By: bernardo

bernardo — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:13:51 +0000

hello, congratulations, flash+indexhibit is a very useful and inteligent solution,
works with flash video ?

thanks!

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:50:03 +0000

hi a.a.
really like what you have done with our example!
thumbs up :)

By: A. A.

A. A. — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:21:05 +0000

very nice job!!
I used your php libraries in this personal ( non commercial ) portfolio http://www.cadaunoescomoes.com and I’ll use it a lot in future.

Just a tip, I added a “sec_order” field to ExhibitVo class to store section order.. and used “order” to save the gallery order inside a section, so I can detect gallery order modifications and reflect it in flash frontend.

thanks for the good work!

By: Spencer

Spencer — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:22:40 +0000

It looks great! And Tomas, the default IndexExhibit can’t resize images as such. You could also possibly have Flash preload the images.

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:04:13 +0000

There’s already a flash site around. So your’s might not be the very, very first.

lichtreflektion.de

Anyways, I very much apprechiate your work! ()Don’t get me wrong

By: Tomas

Tomas — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:13:19 +0000

Yes, I don’t see any point doing this website in flash. There is no any single tool that does something better then default Indexibit options. Not impressed at all. Sorry I like flash but I think it should be used with for the right purpose.