T Shirt App

[bean_2k1]

Hi All

i have recently been asked to create a website for a tshirt company so customer can upload there own picture then view it on the tshirt, then buy the design abit like this website

http://www.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Cre...t/Designer-59/

i just wanted to know is there an open source programs that could do this or any tutorials which could give me a point in the right direction ?

[Bocaj]

That t-shirt designers done in flash, try looking through flash resource sites.

You'd need a combination of flash, php, databases so i'd imagine

Possibly, you could avoid flash, with some of possibilities of ajax...

However you have to weigh it up... flash requires a plugin, ajax doesn't work on older browsers....

Ajax is better for SEO flash can't be read by search engines.... theres so much to consider.

Flash would be the simplest and most probably the best method imho.

I don't know much about flash or actionscript tho... try googling dome resources.

[Alex Rehm]

Hiya bean_2k1,

What you have there is (as Bocaj said) a mix of flash, xhtml, a database (in this case .net I would guess from the speed) and javascript for defining the functions as well as the purchase side. I don't think any of this can be gotten anywhere as a freeware version, though having said that, I think I have seen a flash image-editor fla lying around somewhere at Flashkit or Flashperfection.com

Doing something like this is quite difficult (I tried to do something in the past and failed miserably), but for the sake of resources you would be looking at tutorials covering the following:
- XML integration into flash (all the designs and products tabs of that site are populated from a database via xml into flash)
- Object manipulation via actionscript's EventListener (resize, move, rotate)
- Object manipulation via actionscript for dynamic text
- Sourcing information from flash into an eCommerce engine (or paypal integration)

Unfortunately where I am right now (train) I don't have all my bookmarks on me, though the books I would recommend you read up on would be "Learning Actionscript 3.0" (O'Reilly) and most definetly "Essential Actionscript 3.0" (O'Reilly), as these are both very good starting points as well as wonderful reference books for anything object or xml orientated in Flash.

Hope this kinda gives you a starting point into the matter, once I am home this evening I'll add a couple more links for you to have a look at.

Alex