Hello all,

I need some advice and a point in the right direction.
I’d like to create a flash banner (easy to do),
but I’d like the banner to display dynamic data, from an xml file. Different text / links
by banner I mean an advertisement banner not a site header.

The swf file would be hosted my server, than I’d include a java script in other websites (just like most advertising campaigns) that will call a .php or .js file which will check if the target user has flash if so display the banner, if not substitute it with a gif.

Here are my questions;
is it possible, are there any security issues involved? any sort of blocking by browsers etc.
i know it can be done, I just don’t know where to start,
yeah I know I can pay someone to do it, but that would take all the fun out of it.

Thanks

I'm by no means an expert on dynamic content in flash, but from what I've read you can combine action script with a server-side scripting like php, asp, or coldfusion (if your server can help you create the data source, I highly recommend coldfusion). You can find a ton of articles on the subject if you google it, and there are a lot of books on the topic, like this
www.flashdeveloper.nl/g_flash_flash_books_1903450063.html