About

December 29th, 2008

Wade Arnold is the CEO of T8DESIGN a rich media and application firm located in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Arnold is responsible for strategic planning, product development, and creating an exciting and rewarding corporate environment. Arnold has been selected to be a speaker at several national software development and security conferences. Arnold has an active dialog with Adobe and actively participates in prerelease beta development of Flash, Flex, and Air. Arnold is passionately involved in open source flash/flex development and aligns T8DESIGN behind these initiatives. Arnold is the lead developer of AMFPHP and open source implementation of Flash Remoting. In 2008 Arnold co-authored The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development. Arnold has a degree in Computer Science emphasizing intelligent systems and an MBA from the University of Iowa. T8DESIGN works with hundreds of community banks and medium to enterprise customers including CKE Restaurants, Nike, McDonalds, John Deere, AT&T, Lindsay Corporation, Best Buy, and the Department of Defense.

 

When I go to conferences people are like “you look different in person” which I assume means that I look like hell. So in the spirit of transparency, this is what I look like when I am heading home after working for 32 hours on the stuff that this blog cares about! DEPTH PERCEPTION: FAIL

  1. Søren Jepsen
    March 27th, 2008 at 04:43 | #1

    When do you plan on releasing a AMFPHP version where authentication works with setCredentials()?

    Kindly Regards

    Søren Jepsen

    PS: You’re doing a great job.

  2. b7kich
    May 1st, 2008 at 03:39 | #2
  3. Bob Jeffries
    June 11th, 2008 at 15:31 | #3

    There hasn’t been any news about AMFPHP for a long time. What’s the deal? At least when Patrick Mineault was leading the project he would respond to people, Wade hasn’t responded to anyone in months, what’s the deal, Wade? Too busy? Is this project still alive? You could at least respond to the community with some kind of feedback. This lack of response from you is pretty lame.

  4. Alan
    July 5th, 2008 at 22:07 | #4

    All my comments are getting turned away…..sorry this is a test

  5. September 15th, 2008 at 15:00 | #5

    Hi, where can i get Zend_Amf component? I downloaded last version of ZF and Zend_Amf is not in laboratory folder :(

    PS
    I realy appreciate what you do with Adobe and Zend :) It’s awesome!

  6. September 15th, 2008 at 15:18 | #6

    It is currently in the incubator. I need to finish of some test cases before it can get moved out into the laboratory folder.

  7. October 5th, 2008 at 02:00 | #7

    Heyo! It looks like the amfphp website is down? What’s the deal?

  8. Taher
    October 29th, 2008 at 03:33 | #8

    Hi Wade,

    You done a good job with this blog very interesting resources.

    I would need your help if possible with a problem I have actually with an application I am developing using AMFPHP with a Caingorm pattern and PHP 5.2. I have correctly configured everything and my calls using remoteobject are done correctly and gives results when it’s question of separate calls but when I make two or three calls simultaneously for different jobs I get a “NetConnection.Call.Failed: HTTP: Failed” error.

    For information, by the side of php my classes extends one main class with common functions.

    I hope you can help me about this problem.

    Thank you very much in all cases.

  9. January 26th, 2009 at 13:43 | #9

    Hi Wade,
    You got my interest at Flex Camp Chicago ’09 for the ZendAMF.
    I will be looking into it and send you some feedback as I do.
    Thank you very much for all your efforts.
    Great presentation in Chicago!

  10. Maik
    February 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 | #10

    Hi!
    I am a big fan of AMFPHP (use it with flex3 and flash cs4) and wanted to ask if it is still developed or if i should switch to zend? Zend to me seems much harder to implement than amfphp and the service browser is just great! Will amfphp ever go out of beta?

    Thank you and greetings from Switzerland!

  11. Chadwick
    March 17th, 2009 at 19:20 | #11

    Hey Wade,
    I’ve been a fan of AMFPHP for a long time … but haven’t used it for a while. We’ve been using the Codeigniter framework and we tried to get the ZendAMF library to work with CI … but no success. So I challenged my PHP guy to come up with a way to integrate AMFPHP into CI without hacking up the files, allow for full access to the CI models and libraries, and make it function by simply adding classes to the services folder. And damn if he didn’t actually do it! Check it out when you get a chance.

    http://codeigniter.com/wiki/AMF_Codeigniter_Library_No_Zend_No_Hooks_Etc./

  12. Pixelmaker
    May 21st, 2009 at 10:33 | #12

    Hi Wade,

    We have some problems with connecting to database when Database server is in remote place (server) using AMFPHP and ZEND.

    Does it related to servers or we can do something in code so that it connects to remote database?

    Does it have any solution? Please help us.

    Thanks.

  13. Martin Moschitz
    May 26th, 2009 at 03:57 | #13

    Hi Wade,

    I really enjoy suing ZendAMF, but I have ONE big problem. I need user authentication and it seems impossible to find any information on how to use Flex with ZendAMf with sessions. There is only one tutorial, and this does not work for me.

    Do you have any information on this?

    Thanks for any advice,
    Martin

  14. June 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 | #14

    Hi,
    I’m not sure if this is the place for this question, but I can’t find a answer anywhere.
    In using zendAMF, I am able to pass an object to php just fine and access the vars with $obj -> video_id..etc. In AS, I’m trying to build out an object that holds all of the objects in my Array Collection, so in php, there will be multiple objects. How do I access those in PHP? I can’t loop through it and Im getting a count() of 1 so I can’t do foreach($obj as $o)…$o['video_title'] etc…..
    Any help would be awesome!!

  15. July 21st, 2009 at 11:51 | #15

    Implementing ZendAMF is way too hard. :(

    You should have had Adobe sponsored the development of AMFPHP instead.

  16. July 22nd, 2009 at 14:07 | #16

    Just a quick note to say thanks for the info shared during the php/flex eseminar. I’ve recently moved to South Africa, so its always good to connect with what’s going with Flex.

  17. hdegues
    July 31st, 2009 at 12:11 | #17

    I wait that you can help me. Flex to connect with me Zend_AMF generates an error when the php class that is specified as a source in Flex, descends from an abstract class, the error indicates that “Zend_Server_Reflection_Exception: Variable number of arguments is not supported for services (except optional parameters). Number of function arguments must currespond to actual number of arguments described in a docblock. “, specifically the abstract class that I use is: class MyClass extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract. I tried updating Zend_Amf of Zend_Framework 1.8 does not work, actualemnte I use Zend_framework 1.7. If you could give me any hint would help me a lot.

  18. adiaz
    July 31st, 2009 at 12:12 | #18

    I wait that you can help me. Flex to connect with me Zend_AMF generates an error when the php class that is specified as a source in Flex, descends from an abstract class, the error indicates that “Zend_Server_Reflection_Exception: Variable number of arguments is not supported for services (except optional parameters). Number of function arguments must currespond to actual number of arguments described in a docblock. “, specifically the abstract class that I use is: class MyClass extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract. I tried updating Zend_Amf of Zend_Framework 1.8 does not work, actualemnte I use Zend_framework 1.7. If you could give me any hint would help me a lot.

  19. farid
    August 10th, 2009 at 04:39 | #19

    Hi Mr. Wade Arnold
    Thanks for every thing.

    I have a question about relation mapping .
    If I have to use one to many relationship and mysql how I can handle it with Zend AMF?
    Looking forward to hearing from you.

    BR
    Farid Valipour

  20. August 28th, 2009 at 13:11 | #20

    Hi Wade,

    I’d be grateful if you could let me know whether Zend_Amf (latest i.e 1.9) should work with an Actionscript 2-based flash movie? I’ve built a Zend_Amf endpoint and the method calls are getting through but the data is not being returned to flash. Also, is the mapping of skeleton data classes compulsory or can I just return an array?

    Thanks,

    codecowboy

  21. 王晓东willian
    November 8th, 2009 at 05:01 | #21

    hi Wade,
    just thanks for your tutorial.
    it’s helpful!

  22. saltamontez
    January 13th, 2010 at 09:37 | #22

    @hdegues
    Ran into the same Problem. Have you found a solution yet?

  23. Kasper Rasmussen
    February 20th, 2010 at 20:12 | #23

    Hi Wade,

    When you are doing Zend AMF, which is in collaboration with Adobe, can’t you take a look into why Zinc and Flash Projectors doesn’t work with AMF NetConnection in Linux?

    I guess it’s Adobe that has made an error, but it surely affects your work, when it’s not working and I cant seem to contact them in anyway to tell’em, I tried to sign in as debugger, but didn’t get a confirmation mail and there’s not a direct mail, which is the same here :)

    The Linux Distro’s that I have tested so far:
    Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala from October, 2009
    Fedora, newest version
    Suse Live

    AMF NetConnection does work on: XP, Vista, Windows 7, OS X

    The call is not allowed, but at the moment when closing the app, the call is made and the gateway.php receives zero AMF data as a result.

    Or… maybe there’s something I am doing wrong, but there’s been a good amount of people involved debugging this, including my colleques and some of the Multidmedia staff, so I think it is some kind of bug :(

    Cool things you are doing, keep doing it.

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