Archive for the ‘AMFPHP’ Category

Utilizing the Zend AMF Server Inside a Zend Controller

Sunday, 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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What’s in the Zend Framework for the Flash/Flex Developer?

Wednesday, 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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Using AMFPHP with ADOdb

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Very often you want to add functionality from a PHP library to your AMFPHP service classes. This short tutorial shows the use of ADOdb as database abstraction layer and may be especially helpful for beginners with AMFPHP.
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