janharders - 4:27 pm on Jul 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

>>Then, I hope, Flash could read an XML file that has been updated through my PHP scripts and display any images and mp3s within the two directories in a flash movie container.

that sure is possible, though it requires some work on the flash-side. a lot of flash-video/audio-players work that way. the original script is unchanged, you just tell it which xml-file to read and define your playlist in that file. similar, you could just put text etc into that file. maybe you can do it easily by looking at the source of some open source-flash-player that uses this technique and see how they do it. if you're not familiar with flash, I guess you have to outsource at least this part, though.