Flash Front End + Moodle

Flash Front End + Moodle

by Rob Stringer -
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Hi All,

Sorry if this has been covered, but I couldn't find any threads that matched.

I want to build a fun Flash based front end for my kids to use, which would then tie into Moodle to handle the log in and various API calls to pull out the required data.

So for example, the study calendar would be an interactive object within the Flash front end that the user can click, see an animation of it turning to the correct month, then show the Moodle data.

Is this something Moodle can do? If not can anyone suggest an LMS that might be able to do it?

Thanks,

Rob

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Re: Flash Front End + Moodle

by Rob Stringer -

Can really no one help with this? All I need to know is can moodle let me push and pull data out of it using an API or similar method?

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Re: Flash Front End + Moodle

by Darko Miletić -

Moodle 2 has most of the funcionallity exposed through Web services

You could probably use that for your frontend. See:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Web_services

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Re: Flash Front End + Moodle

by Matt Bury -
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Hi,

With Moodle 2.0, I think you'd run into a lot of problems handling the error/warning messages it seems to generate in Flash. I'd wait a while until they've iron those bugs out.

Personally, I'd use Flash selectively with Moodle. There are cases where it's advantagous to use Flash, your animated calendar example is a good one, and others where it's better to use HTML - text and static images, which is what Moodle mostly does. For simple animation and graphics, Javascript should suffice and it's only when you want the full power of RIAs and their networking, sophisticated graphics and data handling capabilities that Flash's pros would outweigh the cons.

Check out these posts by Lee Brimelow (Adobe's Flash platform evangelist):

http://blog.theflashblog.com/?p=2287

http://blog.theflashblog.com/?p=2279

I hope this helps!

smile

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Re: Flash Front End + Moodle

by Rob Stringer -

Thanks to both of you for the information, much appreciated!

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