By now we know that the content of Joomla! is stored in databases. Whenever a user sends a request for an article to Joomla!, it retrieves the content of that article from the database. So far, we have seen how to use Flash objects in Joomla! contents, but we have yet not seen how to use the contents from Joomla! in a Flash object. Suppose, you have an existing site based on Flash, and now, you want to display Joomla! articles in that Flash site. In such a case, using dynamic contents in Flash is needed.
Flash can read data from XML files. Therefore, the easiest way would be to extract the data from the database, convert it into an XML file, and iterate the XML file using a PHP script and feed it into Flash. Although it seems easy, another feature called Flash Remoting has been added to Flash, by which Flash objects can consume data from servers through a gateway service.
To consume the data from any web service...