Info: FlashFeed is a project that enables the use of Joomla as backend to Adobe Flash sites. It is possible to edit and post your content in Joomla and feed it into a Flash movie, making Joomla an advanced CMS backend.

Today I've release the Flashfeed 0.04 release. The one major enhancement is that all parameters are now feeded in the xml. Try to click on the following links, and you will see the Flashfeed XML feed from this Joomla site:

View this article as XML:
http://www.youcanjoomla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&format=xml

View this category as XML:
http://www.youcanjoomla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=1&format=xml

View this section as XML
http://www.youcanjoomla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=1&format=xml

View my frontpage as XML
http://www.youcanjoomla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&format=xml

The cool thing about this release is, that you're now able to add custom parameters to your articles, and these will show in the xml files too. Let's say you want a user attach images to the text they are writing in the articles. Flash can't handle <img> tags, so it won't work if the user inserts and image with the editor. But instead, just create an imagelist parameter in the administrator/components/com_content/models/article.xml file, and the user can now select an image to go with the text. And then you can load the image inside of Flash and do whatever you want. If you don't know how to add custom parameters to articles, take a look at my tutorial: image as article parameter.

Go to the downloads section to download the FlashFeed 0.04 release.

I'm planning on releasing the 1.0 version before summer, if I can get enough donations to be able to take some time off from my web freelancing duties. I'd also be glad to hear from anyone who's using the FlashFeed project. Your knowledge is really useful to future features / bugsquashing.