June 1st, 2009
Version 1.8 of the Zend Framework introduced a whole new concept of bootstrapping an application. The core functionality is contained in the Zend_Application component which supports a strictly object-oriented approach to bootstrapping. Although the new concept is fairly straightforward, it does take a little time to get used to it if you are used to the bootstrapping process in earlier versions of ZF.
One of the many interesting features of Zend_Application is the ability to push resources into resource plugin classes which can be utilized simply via configuration. In this tutorial we will be looking at creating a custom resource plugin. The plugin is quite simple, it creates a “value object” with the name, author and version of the application, and stores it in the Zend registry.
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Tags: PHP, Zend
Posted in PHP, Zend Framework | 11 Comments »
December 14th, 2008
Many tutorials suggest that you set up the Zend AMF server directly in the bootstrap or index.php file. But what if you want to build a hybrid application with both Flex and HTML interfaces? In this case it’s better to let the bootstrap file do its usual job of application dispatching, and to make the AMF gateway a controller.
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Tags: Flash, Flex, Zend, Zend Amf
Posted in AMFPHP, Flash, Flex, Uncategorized, Zend Amf | 32 Comments »
November 26th, 2008
The 1.7 release of the Zend Framework includes the new Zend_Amf package which provides a gateway server implementation for AMF remoting. By the time of writing this article, there are not many resources available yet (a good starting point is here), and the few tutorials mostly guide you through the process of setting up the bootstrap file and establishing a MySQL database connection by using mysql_connect() directly in the service classes.
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Tags: AMFPHP, Flash, Flex, Zend, Zend Amf
Posted in AMFPHP, Flash, Flex, PHP, Zend Amf | 18 Comments »
August 15th, 2008
This post is a reminder to myself (and a source of help to anyone who may need it). For a long time I thought a cross-domain policy file in a web server’s root directory solves all cross-domain security issues automagically – until I stumbled over the fact that I wasn’t able to manipulate the bitmap data of an image that was loaded from outside my SWF file’s domain.
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Tags: ActionScript, Flash, Security
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August 13th, 2008
In this blog entry I would like to share my approach to handling FlashVars in a PureMVC application. I assume that you are familiar with the basic concepts of PureMVC.
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Tags: ActionScript, Flash, FlashVars, PureMVC
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June 4th, 2008
Configuration files often contain Boolean parameters for enabling or disabling features in an application or website. This way non-programmers can easily customize complex systems. But what if someone uses another word than “true” (for example, “1″, “yes”, “y”, “on”)?
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Tags: ActionScript, Flash, Flex
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May 28th, 2008
Did you know TinyURL has an open API? As the service itself, the API is incredibly simple:
http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://blog.log2e.com/
Here’s a little Flex demo that demonstrates its use.
View source.
Tags: ActionScript, Flex, TinyURL
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May 19th, 2008
This three-parts tutorial reflects my own learning experience with the PureMVC framework and the PureMVC Startup Manager. It was inspired by Philip Sexton’s demo Startup as Ordered and is my first attempt on PureMVC. The tutorial’s goal is to provide beneficial information to other novice PureMVC users who have understood the theory but lack practice.
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Tags: ActionScript, Flash, Flex, PureMVC
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May 19th, 2008
Preparing the View
We are almost there. In the final step of this tutorial we will be creating a very simple view:
- Create a file with the name StageMediator.as in the view folder.
- Create a new folder inside the view folder and call it components.
- Create two files in the components folder and name them SectionView.as and TitleView.as.
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Tags: ActionScript, Flash, FlashDevelop, Flex, PureMVC
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