General pointers needed - uploading user xml to flex embedded in C5
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Just looking for some general pointers in ways to achieve something. I'm newish to C5, reasonable skills in ActionScript and Flex, not much experience in PHP or JavaScript but want to learn.
I have a web-app in flex, which I'm embedding in C5. It currently reads static xml files for content. What I would like is for users to be able to browse their local hard disk, upload an xml file, alter it in the flex app (I can handle this bit) then download/save the altered xml file back to their own hard drive.
Are there any existing blocks that would help with this, or any general pointers in what I should explore to try to achieve this. Thanks.
I have a web-app in flex, which I'm embedding in C5. It currently reads static xml files for content. What I would like is for users to be able to browse their local hard disk, upload an xml file, alter it in the flex app (I can handle this bit) then download/save the altered xml file back to their own hard drive.
Are there any existing blocks that would help with this, or any general pointers in what I should explore to try to achieve this. Thanks.
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/flash-embed/...
...but that's for uploading an XML file to use as data for Flash that displays on the site itself -- not for modifying an XML file and then offering it for download.
I may not be understanding your requirement here, but it sounds like what you want doesn't really have anything to do with a C5 site -- you just want a place where users can upload a file, then some code on the server does something to the file and then the user downloads the modified file? I'd just find some tutorials or solutions that do this with PHP or Javascript or whatever, and put that code in a subdirectory on your server and have your users go there.
(Unless you need C5's users/permissions thing so they need to log in -- in which case I'd build it out as a single_page).