Comments on: What’s in the Zend Framework for the Flash/Flex Developer?

By: lunacafu

lunacafu — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:52:21 +0000

This setup has worked for me for many projects. I have updated ZF to 1.10.5 and now it is broken.

Could someone update it?

By: Renato

Renato — Tue, 25 May 2010 00:36:46 +0000

Very useful post. It is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for sharing.

By: Andriy

Andriy — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:49:49 +0000

Very nice post. Thank you!

By: Lasse

Lasse — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:27:07 +0000

I have looked at that tutorial, however it doesn’t provide a way to authenticate further calls to services… At least not that I can see. I’d like to abort the service call if authentication fails, and so authentication should be checked on every call, preferably in the constructor. The only thing I can’t figure out is how to abort the service call if authentication fails in the constructor..

By: Stefan Schmalhaus

Stefan Schmalhaus — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:54:04 +0000

@Lasse: For authentication with Zend AMF please take a look at this tutorial: http://www.keithcraigo.com/archives/66

By: Lasse

Lasse — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:43:01 +0000

In your BaseService class’ constructor, would it be possible to do some validation and then if that validation fails abort the call to the getUsers() function?

something like this, in the constructor:

if ($valid == FALSE)
{
return false;
exit;
}

It is for login/authentication purposes

By: Stefan Schmalhaus

Stefan Schmalhaus — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:51:25 +0000

@Ka Wai: Thanks for the link. However, I guess that most clients want to store their data on their own server.

By: Ka Wai

Ka Wai — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:21:33 +0000

Zend_AMF does set things up nicely for Flex, but it’s still particular to PHP.

There’s a new web-based platform called X2O that rids the need of server-side programming altogether (http://www.x2oframework.com) for Flex and Flash CS4 apps. It lets you create data models over the Web and then generates a content management system, web services, and integrated AS3 SWC library (you don’t even have to configure any services…it’s all built into the SWC). Seamless….

This allows you to build database-driven Flex/Flash apps without any server-side programming or setup.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:52:08 +0000

Hi Stefan, thankyou for the great article. I’ve spent a week trying to find decent info on how to setup Zend_AMF properly and this is the most detailed tute I could find.

I do have a couple of questions however. It’s important to note that I am using the ZF MVC framework too.

1. When I follow your directions, almost exactly, and reload my root page, I get a popup that says: “You have chosen to open: [blank] application/x-amf”. I can’t actually refresh any page. I have downloaded the page and the contents are “Zend Amf Endpoint” followed by all the HTML in my layout/layout.phtml file. This problem is resolved by commenting out the line in the bootstrap “echo($server->handle());”. I also assume I am meant to turn the view off somewhere for this, but I have no idea where.

2. You instantiate your Zend_Amf_Server in the bootstrap for your User table. But what do you do if you have other tables and services to setup? Do you just add more setClass and setClassMap method calls to the same $server object?

Thanks for any help you can give. AMF has been the most difficult concept for me to get my head around with ZF. (namely, how to get it to work with the MVC system)

Regards
Aaron

By: Stefan Schmalhaus

Stefan Schmalhaus — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:52:21 +0000

I just added another post on how to set up a Zend AMF server inside a regular Zend controller. I think this is the best way of keeping the bootstrap file free from any AMF server-related code. Also, you gain a lot more flexibility when building applications with both HTML and Flex interfaces.