Working with Flash front end

Hello all,

I've never used zen-cart before so I'm just checking to make sure I can do with it what I need.

I'm working with a flash designer who will design the shop front in Flash. I believe it is easily possible to embed the Flash objects in HTML.

His Flash side needs the database contents available in XML form. I can find nothing in the documentation as to how the database information is passed to the shop front. Is this feasible? simple/complex?

Thanks in advance.

fried:

Hello all,

I've never used zen-cart before so I'm just checking to make sure I can do with it what I need.

I'm working with a flash designer who will design the shop front in Flash. I believe it is easily possible to embed the Flash objects in HTML.

His Flash side needs the database contents available in XML form. I can find nothing in the documentation as to how the database information is passed to the shop front. Is this feasible? simple/complex?

Thanks in advance.

Flash AS2 and AS3, has the ability to work with PHP and MySQL databases and could do some of the cart functions, but would take some skill to do. Flash wouldn't be that much more work to embed in PHP then HTML, even easier with swfObject. The cart is done in PHP and the databases is MySQL, XML could be created like a RSS feed, but that's about it. There are some flash carts out there already designed, but they are very limited on what they can do. Look at Flashkit or Google for one. Flash would work better as a design element and with limited cart functions.