I am creating my first flash website for my wife's cousin who is a photographer.

I want the site to be customizable by her through the use of XML, PHP, or whatever can get the following job done.

I want to create navigation buttons that are dynamically updated/created.

For example:

There will be a "Recent Sessions" button on the site. When the user clicks this I want it to show a drop down menu of all the names of the recent photo sessoins (like Smith Family is one option, Jackson family the other, etc). Well I want these subbuttons under the main Recent Sessions button to be created by the swf reading a file off the server (like the folder name a PHP file whatever). How can this be done?

Also say I want the buttons to animate in a special way (like squash and stretch when rolled over, etc). Do I create a template for the buttons in flash or through XML, etc can I have the sub buttons animate the way I want?

Thanks.