Editing XML for SPRY Demos

Question

Hello All,
Apologies in advance if this is a topic that has been covered
in the past. I searched through the previous posts, but didn't see
what I was looking for.
I am pretty new to SPRY, but have been able to put together a
few different apps that I think are interesting. These are mostly
based off of the demos I have seen on here such as the products
& photo gallery demos. After completing these though, the first
thing that pops in to my mind is how to build a backend edit tool
that would allow a potential client to edit the underlaying XML
that drives these apps without having to have me perform updates
for them. While looking around online I have seen several possible
solutions, but they all seem to have one problem or another.
What I am wondering is if there is an easy way to set up a
form that will edit/add/delete different entries in the XML files.
I would prefer to use PHP if at all possible. Of all the solutions
I have seen thus far, it seems that they all require me to use
either ASP, .NET, MYSQL or some other database system to extract
data from and create the XML dynamically. This is all well and
good, but I seem to have clients that have lots of different
hosting environments, so all of the above mentioned options seem to
be a bit to specialized for my needs. I'm really thinking that a
PHP solution that edits the XML file directly would be able to
cover more ground.
Is this even possible? Any direction that you could point me
in would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Hello,
As Kin said in the above post, if you are using HTML data
sets InContexEditing would be great service to use.
But what if you don't.. I doesn't mean it cannot be done with
XML and databases. While i was Adobe MAX 2008 milano I spend my
spare time building an example that allows users easy CRUD with
Spry. You can also purchase a system but why do so if you already
have all tools you need :)
http://www.spry-it.com/examples/crud/
Its very early stage of this example but I got all basic
actions covered.
Inline edit that posts the changed data to a server file. And
places the returned server value inside your data set and updates
the data set. (updating the data set is not necessary but i just
added it to show that the data is actually updated inside the data
set to)
You can also delete rows and duplicate rows. I did not tie a
server side action to those yet. But it would be easy to do as I
did with inline Editing function. I fully commented the
SpryFullCRUD.js so it might help you out..
If you don't understand it feel free to ask questions, and I
hope it helps you out a bit. I will be writing a large article
about this and hope this example give you some inspiration.