Those of you who are experienced in building data-driven websites in Flash may be thinking that my approach so far has been incredibly basic and inflexible. But this is actually where it gets interesting. The next few sections describe how to expand the technique to support more complex types of content in the CMS.

Now that you have the ability to populate a site with nodes and load them in ActionScript, the next logical step is to figure out a way of storing the information in a more SWF-friendly format. At the moment the two fields you can use to store information is the title and the body, but the body is just a chunk of HTML. Custom content types (enabled by the CCK module) allow you to define new Page types that can contain any fields you wish. For example, I could have an AboutUsPage content type with the following fields: