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Can this be done? Software development question...

by seanpearse
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Hi all,

I'm hoping some of you can advise me whether or not it's possible to do this?.....

I have an animation template which I use to display the weekly lotto results as an overlay. Is it possible to create a script/software application that could extract the lotto results from say an rss feed, insert them into the animation template and publish it to the website automatically? The website is wordpress/php. I know this is a pretty vague description but I'm just looking for a bit of general feedback before I post the job.

Any thoughts/ideas are much appreciated.

Cheers, Sean
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  • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
    What is the animation created with... Flash? If so, then you could use PHP to extract the info from the RSS feed, and then write that info to a database (or XML file or whatever) on your server. Then use Action Script to grab that info from your server, and create the new animated video with it.
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    • Profile picture of the author seanpearse
      Thanks for the reply Brandon. Yeah it's just a basic flv animation with an overlay for updating the numbers without recreating the whole animation. That's what I was hoping anyway, it shouldn't be too difficult should it?

      Even if it is a bit on the pricey side it beats manually updating the f'in thing after every lotto!!
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      • Profile picture of the author Brandon Tanner
        Originally Posted by seanpearse View Post

        Thanks for the reply Brandon. Yeah it's just a basic flv animation with an overlay for updating the numbers without recreating the whole animation. That's what I was hoping anyway, it shouldn't be too difficult should it?

        Even if it is a bit on the pricey side it beats manually updating the f'in thing after every lotto!!
        The PHP part should be pretty easy (depending on your exact requirements, of course). But I don't know much about Action Script, so I couldn't tell you how involved that part would be.
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  • Profile picture of the author klickgablow
    Hi Sean,

    Quite do-able.

    Depending on how this "overlay" works or is compiled, will depend on the initial ease of implementation.

    So, is this overlay an actual animation itself where by you edit the numbers in your Flash editor then recompile the overlay?

    Or is the overlay generated from XML for example ?

    If its the former, it can always be modified as such that the overlay pulls its values from a set of XML results (output via PHP) or any other data format accepted by Flash so that you have yourself a total hands off approach.

    Once one sees the source files, the best approach will be much easier to determine.
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  • Profile picture of the author rockong
    What's do-able is really dependent on the skills of the programmer you hire If you find the right person, you'd be amazed by the genius of some of these programming minds!
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  • Profile picture of the author daedhrogon
    Almost everything can be developed :-)
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