Flashfeed Component

The Flashfeed extension allows you to use Joomla as backend to Flash. Install the extension, and you're able to feed articles, categories, sections and frontpage as XML, and load this into Flash (or other applications).

In the downloads area you will also find Actionscript 3 classes designed to communicate easily with your Joomla site.

It is the goal to release a 1.0 version that feeds all core Joomla components as XML, and corresponding Actiosncript 3 classes to offer full Joomla -> Flash compability.

This is still a 0.0x beta release.

Read more about the extension on www.youcanjoomla.com

Updates:

- 30. april 2009, updated to version 0.04

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I've installed and tested the 0.3 beta version.
As the author underlines, it is a very beta release and it is just for testing purposes, so I guess there is no meaning in posting here what works and what does not.
Nevertheless I rate this extension with an "excellent" since it is exactly what I've been looking for, and I think this author is on the right way to develop one of the most popular extension ever, expecially if next releases will take in consideration: 1) SEO aspects 2) the need of having a flash that reads different xml files (different pages) without having to refresh the whole page.
To do that, I guess that the author will have to work on component, flash classes and a new "ad hoc" template at the same time.
Owner's reply

Thank you so much. I can't wait to release the 1.0 version. Just to answer your questions:

1) SEO aspects: The release works with SEO enabled. Check out www.youcanjoomla.com. It has SEO enabled, but I'm still able to use the Flash classes anyway.

2) Flash reading different XML files: This is also possible. You can use the FlashFeed actiosncript 3 classes as much as you'd like. Just create a new instance and load some XML. You can do as many times as you'd like.