Data-driven WP Flash content

  • Hi,

    I’m totally new to WordPress but am looking to use the platform to develop a music label site, exhibiting various artists and am basically looking for some info/advice from more seasoned WP devs regarding the CMS and data-driving Flash with this.

    I’ve seen some amazing things achieved with WP so far and as i understand, it is PHP/MySQL driven. When you add a new section to the site, a new table is set-up in the DB to base this content upon?

    Things i’d like to clarify are, data-driving Flash, skinning the CMS and advertising space.

    WP is driven from MySQL and am I right in thinking the CMS is cPanel?
    I’m looking to develop various Flash elements; an audio player for the artists sections, a video player etc. and would like to data-drive all of these elements.

    Is it possible to create a new table in the DB to store data for the audio/video players and, to then create a custom area of the CMS cPanel, that can update these tables?

    Also, is it possible to reskin the CMS and, can I create banner/tower space and update this from the CMS as well?

    Thanks,

    Dave

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  • When you add a new section to the site, a new table is set-up in the DB to base this content upon?

    No – new entries are added to a number of existing inter-related tables.

    WP is driven from MySQL and am I right in thinking the CMS is cPanel?

    No. The CMS is WordPress.

    Have a read through WordPress.

    Thread Starter digitalpencil

    (@digitalpencil)

    Thanks. Ok, so when you add a new section to the site, new entries are added to these tables.

    Could you not add a new table in phpmyadmin to the DB to serve just this Flash content? Could you not add a custom section to the WP CMS to update this table?

    Basically, how do people data-drive Flash using WordPress? All i want is to be able to create a custom Flash video player and use WordPress as the CMS to update the database on which this is based. Surely people have driven Flash with WP before?

    Thanks for the info.

    Could you not add a new table in phpmyadmin to the DB to serve just this Flash content? Could you not add a custom section to the WP CMS to update this table?

    Not without a plugin.

    All i want is to be able to create a custom Flash video player and use WordPress as the CMS to update the database on which this is based

    So why not use a Flash video player plugin?

    Surely people have driven Flash with WP before?

    For playing videos, music (ie attachments) – yes. But not for delivering core content.

    Thread Starter digitalpencil

    (@digitalpencil)

    Thanks again for the info. i’m beginning to get this.

    I can’t use a video player plugin. Basically, the site is for a large music label, the Flash elements are all bespoke rich-media elements. The top one being an artist carousel that will allow the user to glide through cut-outs of all the artists with interactive audio, video, news, all richly animated.

    I’m hoping to data-drive this and another video player section that will playback music videos, interviews etc.

    It doesn’t look like this is possible with WordPress which i’m kind of surprised about tbh.

    So the only way to add a new table to the DB is to do so via a plugin and the only way to add a custom admin section to the CMS is via a plugin? I think i’ll just embed the Flash and have it look to a separate DB, can you at least add a link to the admin panel to point out to this other CMS?

    Thanks.

    the only way to add a custom admin section to the CMS is via a plugin

    Yes – although such a page could also be added via a specialised theme. It’s the handling & storage of the data collected by this page that probably pushes you into plugin territory. The line between plugins & themes is pretty blurred – especially with some of the more feature intensive themes.

    can you at least add a link to the admin panel to point out to this other CMS

    It should be possible but again, I think you’d need to look at the Plugin API as you’d be using this one way or another to connect to your custom db or tables.

    Thread Starter digitalpencil

    (@digitalpencil)

    Thanks Esmi.

    I’m thinking of building the main site in WP and then constructing a separate CMS for the Flash assets in Drupal, outside of WP.

    Cheers for the info.

    You might also want to have a look at Custom Content Types in WordPress:

    https://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress

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