Comments on: Utilizing the Zend AMF Server Inside a Zend Controller

By: toy

toy — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:58:25 +0000

could you please post
articleVO.php

without it – i cant seem to get a complete picture

thanks!

By: yohan

yohan — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:39:33 +0000

thanks for the explanation

better use $this->getResponse()->appendBody($server->handle()) than
echo($server->handle()); at the end of the action.

you can also add extra header with this method

By: Janther

Janther — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:27:07 +0000

Hi,
I actually tried this way when i was new to Zend and I would discourage this aproach. It is easy for newcomers but it executes a lot of code you wouldnt want in your messaging gateway like every boostrap file of every module, plugins with predispatch and postdispach options etc… Even Wade Arnold creator of Zend_AMF suggest this .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ – [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/?amf amf.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

and have in you amf.php file something like

defined(‘APPLICATION_PATH’)
|| define(‘APPLICATION_PATH’, realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../application’));

defined(‘APPLICATION_ENV’)
|| define(‘APPLICATION_ENV’, (getenv(‘APPLICATION_ENV’) ? getenv(‘APPLICATION_ENV’) : ‘production’));

set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/../library’),
get_include_path(),
)));

require_once ‘Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php’;
$loader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();

and voila, you have the same autoloading and access to any part of your application and the zend framework without the extra execution.

if you need to load the db configuration from the aplication.ini file use something like:

$configuration = new Zend_Config_Ini(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/configs/application.ini’,
APPLICATION_ENV);
$dbAdapter = Zend_Db::factory($configuration->resources->db);
Zend_Db_Table_Abstract::setDefaultAdapter($dbAdapter);

and you are ready to go.

using this aproach i reduced almost a second of innecesary computing that is not used in AMF but would be needed for the html.

By: Oswaldo Milnor

Oswaldo Milnor — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:26:17 +0000

Many posts worthwhile reading on here and a lot of great info. If you do by some chance happen to have time, visit mine and peruse my posts and afford me a comment.

By: Marlo Hoefert

Marlo Hoefert — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:09:26 +0000

nice little blog you have, theme custom? Looks really good

By: David Kagiri

David Kagiri — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:47:47 +0000

Hi.Came across your blog and its really what I have looking for.
Am having issues getting the my Flex app running using this example.

I would greatly appreciate a download load link to the full source and structure.

Cheers.

By: Is it even possible to use Zend_AMF with ZF MVC? - Zend Framework Forum

Is it even possible to use Zend_AMF with ZF MVC? - Zend Framework Forum — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:38:18 +0000

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By: przemon

przemon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:01:43 +0000

I had a small problem to run this example but when i disable layout in my gateway controller it works nice.

public function postDispatch () {
$this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
}

when the layout was enabled I received message NetConnection.Call.BadVersion.

By: Daniel Schmitz

Daniel Schmitz — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:57:47 +0000

goliath, nice question! But without responses from Stefan…

Why controller and services ?

By: Vikram

Vikram — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:23:02 +0000

I was wondering how to use zend_amf with zend_controller and then I found this example of yours. Its very illuminating. Here you have suggested that we can use flex and html views together by using the given method.

I was wondering what would the strategy be if I wanted to use just the flex views, no html views. In that case, I don’t want to initialize a zend_amf_server inside every controller. How would we proceed then?