Flash photo gallery with thumbmail, help

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i have been trying to find a tutorial that explains how to build a dynamic with thumbnails but it seems that dynamic galleries built with flash are the Holy Grail.

I am not a developer per se. In fact i am a photographer by trade. However, having attained through the years some bits of flash knowledge, i was able to build a flash gallery for my porfolio (viewable here). This is the ubiquitous static flash gallery and to change the pictures and thumbnails is really a pain in the foot. What i am looking here is a tutorial that would explain how to make that gallery dynamic. Somehow, i was unable to find anything on the web yet.

Would anyone have any tips or information on how to do this.

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Long story short: you could save your gallery structure on a database and then return it to flash movie with an XML generated by an server side language (like PHP). In your movieclip you parse this XML, and use the data to build your gallery. One XML structure could be:


<root>
<category name="Category name">
<item type="image" href="someimage.jpg" />
<item type="image" href="someimage2.jpg" />
<item type="image" href="someimage3.jpg" />
</category>
<category name="Category name2">
<item type="image" href="someimage4.jpg" />
<item type="image" href="someimage5.jpg" />
<item type="image" href="someimage6.jpg" />
</category>
</root>
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try xml based flash galleries,

see this link