Fit to be Fried

Ever since I discovered Tim Wilson’s implementation of a flash-based theme for Wordpress a few days ago, I’ve been a man obsessed, I must discover not only how it was done, but how to do the same thing with my own sites. Although I obtained a copy of his website’s template, the code made little sense to me and I saw little use in only being able to use pages to display my posts. I instead sought out alternatives, and found a promising one in AMFPHP, a framework which allows one to make PHP calls from inside Flash. However, what the developers of AMFPHP fail to mention is that you need FlexBuilder to access the libraries needed to read the data AMFPHP returns to your Flash document. Bastards. That being that, after about 6 hours of trying without Flex, I surrendered and set about the task of finding myself a copy. My quest for a Flash-based Wordpress theme is, I fear, only beginning.