Flash-db Board Reader

By: Jorge Solis

This little application is just a reader for the main Forum. The Flash code involved is extremely simple and use the service class to simplify the load of data (via LoadVars) The PHP file parse on the background the feeds, provided by default by Simple Machines Board and serve the data as name/value pairs to the Flash Movie. The movie is also extremely simple: just a background and a textfield, so it's easy for you to modify to match your look&feel.

Also you can use the HTML output from the same file (the default behavior when opening newsparse.php in your browser) to include the news in some HTML template. In this case, you need to modify the PHP file itself (see the comments in source code) to customize the output, currently just a table. The HTML output adds also an excerpt of the post itself

Additionally, you can use this reader with any Simple Machine Forum that support RSS output (version 1.0+, not really sure)

Here is our working movie.

Let us know if you use this reader on some site or have any problem at Boards