Wade Arnold

I’ve been keeping my eye on this, but recently read that the Zend Framework requires PHP5. Unfortunately the production server’s we have are still only offering PHP4

I’m using Zend_Amf 1.7.1 and I have problem with ByteArray and rest params. When I send ByteArray and rest params to php, I have one array with all params instead of two or more function params. My client is flash 9 with NetConnection object.

First, thanks for the work you do. I’m not a pro (just an ambitious amateur who does free work for small nonprofits) and I couldn’t do what I do without freebies like amfphp.

A quick question, then: do you have an ETA on amfphp 2? I can’t wait to use it.

Thanks again.

@lee
@lee You really need to come up with an upgrade plan, then. PHP 4 was end-of-lifed this past August. There will be _no_ more security updates whatsoever; the longer you stay on it, the more risk you put to your site and your data.

Hi. This may be a dumb question but i’m an apache/php newbie. I’m using index.php to facilitate the zend_amf server (as in all the examples) and it works great … so where do I put my website’s main default page (ie index.html, index.php)? If I try putting an index.html page on my server the zend_amf stuff stops working. Any help would be great – thanks…

Sweet. Thanks Wade.

@Wade,
We are using Zend Framework for our product, but use AMFPHP for the Flex front ends and applications. We are also on the verge of developing an AIR application which will again works closely with the online product, which needs high end syncing of the database, and sometime some heavy content. Just thinking to move to Zend AMF, but would like to know whether it will be stable, and is it going to break what I could do with AMFPHP… some doubts in the mind…

Wade,

I just downloaded the latest build in hopes it would fix the following.
FaultEvent fault=[RPC Fault faultString=”Duplicate method registered: setTableName” faultCode=”0″ faultDetail=”#0 /Applications/MAMP/frameworks/Zend/Amf/Server.php(442): Zend_Amf_Server->_buildDispatchTable()

but no luck. I’ve commented out all my code to Zend_Auth_Adapter_DbTable and I still get the error above.
Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

@Wade – I use ArrayCollection often as well as ObjectProxy occasionally. The new Zend_AMF has really nice support for VOs. Much appreciated!

@Wade – What about support for using credentials in AMF headers? Older versions of AMFPHP supported a credentials/role concept. Or are there any plans of integrating Zend_Amf with Zend_Acl? Thanks.

Wade,
As it turns out your library is working as it should. The problem was the guy behind the keyboard here. I didn’t completely understand how to implement it. All is well now.

Thank you

Keith

Hello. I currently developing applications with Zend in the backend and the client Extjs (I play that I do not like no Ext JavaScript library) and Flex development when (if I like this) I do it with PHP via AMFPHP (Me Like in most developing flex than anywhere else) and now that I am very happy Zend_AMF out moving around as I want at this point in my whole Flex, Zend and Doctrine. Only strange AMFPHP browser classes that allowed me to test the response of the classes conducted in PHP quickly Zend_Amf Will that will take account of a browser or something?

Hi. I am having trouble passing arrays and objects from Flash to AMF (interestingly, I can get associative arrays back from a database via AMF to Flash without problem). I updated AMF to the latest build via the above link, and it still doesn’t work. I am using WAMP, Windows XP (latest service pack), ActionScript 3.0, and Flash CS3.

I am using NetConnection in my “SendData” class and when I send a series of two strings, it works fine. If I substitute the second string variable for a simple array (myArray = [1, 2, 3]) or a simple object (myObject = {a:”foo”, b:”bar”}) I get a “bad call” error. The PHP code is very simple, and the variable names/types are changed accordingly to accomodate the different variables.

I would suspect that passing arrays and objects to AMF has been tested and am puzzled why I can’t get this to work. Help on this issue is sparse on the web at this point– I checked the bug list and noticed that passing an object as the first variable is a problem, but I can’t get it to work at all, even in the second position. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
David

I’m sure everyone is asking already, but definitely looking forward to a service browser similar to that of amfphp. Anyway, just wanna say thanks for the good work

Actually, I get a “bad version” error, not a “bad call” error. I hope I can get this issue resolved. I’m at a production standstill. I’m still working on getting the unit tests configured (from the other thread).

Thanks,
David

I’m am having trouble with passing Vo from Flex to the server. I can send both integers, booleans, string and array, but not my custom Vo. I have tried to use both $_explicitType inside the VO-class and $server->setClassMap(); inside the bootstrap.
The other methods in my service, sending the similar object _from_ the server to Flex are working just fine. Flex is reciving objects with the right datatype, so all the mapping and linking _should_ be working.

I used Charles to get this error from PHP:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Amf_Exception’ with message ‘Unable to parse null body data net.cmplx.Vo.CategoryStructureVo mapped class cmplx_Vo_Category_StructureNodeVo is not defined’ in [...]Zend/Amf/Request.php:174
Stack trace:
#0 [...]Zend/Amf/Request.php(125): Zend_Amf_Request->readBody()
#1 [...]Zend/Amf/Request.php(93): Zend_Amf_Request->readMessage(Object(Zend_Amf_Parse_InputStream))
#2 [...]Zend/Amf/Request/Http.php(64): Zend_Amf_Request->initialize(‘????????null??/…’)
#3 [...]Zend/Amf/Server.php(427): Zend_Amf_Request_Http->__construct()
#4 [...]Zend/Amf/Server.php(369): Zend_Amf_Server->getRequest()
#5 [...]services/flexamf.php(25): Zend_Amf_Server->handle()
#6 in [...]Amf/Request.php on line 174

Have read allmost every article and tutorial posted on Zend_Amf, not finding a similar case or code-example. After hours of digging further down into the Zend Framework, failsearching, I gave up.

Excuse me for posting here if it’s not the right place to ask for help. Appreciate any kind of respons. Best regards.

Hi there! First of all, thanks for your commitment to this project.

I’ve got a complex object with circular references:
A ->B
B->A
B->C
C->B

I need this to be transmitted from AS to php, in both directions. Is this kind of thing properly handled by Zend_Amf ? Thank you.

Thanks for the support, Wade! I sent the email today. Wow, I am impressed with your dedication!!!

Thaks alot. I used the setDirectory instead of the addClass. How come this method isn’t working? What kind of function do the addClass have, if we hav eto hardcode both loading and classmapping in the bootstrapper in any case?

Anyways, thaks a million times. I really like Zend_Amf. This technology is fantastic. Keep up the good work, many many developers appreciate your efford.

Hey Wade…
just curious,

(1) — under AMFPHP 1.9 with AMF3, there’s an issue with sparse arrays failing to come across as numerically indexed if their first [0] field is null…I’m wondering if the new parser ever addressed that…

(2) — Also, does the new Zend_Amf support the AMFEXT php mod like 1.9 did? Or is there some kind of c-compiled service that lets it run as fast as that did? It seems like the amfext project’s been pretty much dead for the past few years, but it’s a speed monster…it makes AMFPHP as good as or better than running sockets in some cases…

Wade, you never answer my questions man. Do you know I field inquiries from people trying to grapple with these AMF3 bugs all the time, and I have nothing to tell them except, use AMF0, or go with a bundled associative array instead of returning sparse arrays, bytearrays or mysql result sets directly? And half the time that stuff doesn’t even work. I know you took over the AMF project so I’m not laying blame or anything, but ignoring the fact that these issues exist doesn’t do anyone much good, does it?

I used AMFPHP alot and got use to building the service classes with similar CRUD methods. I’ve tried to follow the same model in ZendAMF, but keep getting the “Duplicate method registered” exception. Can you not have two different services with the same method names? ie: ProjectService.getAll() and UserService.getAll()

Hey Wade. Thanks for work on the project.
Do you think it’s possible to use zend_amf without ZEND framework, or you would suggest to stay with AMFPHP. You say that ZEND AMF is more stable than AMFPHP at this point so I wonder if an attempt to cut out Zend_Amf from the whole framework is worth the effort.
Yes I know zend framework is great by itself but I just don’t want it.

@wadearnold
Thanks for answer . Did you find time to write blog post on tearing them apart. I did’t manage to find it. Anyway thanks I’ll try to do it.

dustin :
I used AMFPHP alot and got use to building the service classes with similar CRUD methods. I’ve tried to follow the same model in ZendAMF, but keep getting the “Duplicate method registered” exception. Can you not have two different services with the same method names? ie: ProjectService.getAll() and UserService.getAll()

I am doing the same thing and getting the same error? Why wouldn’t this be allowed? Aren’t the methods scoped only to their class?

i might be a bit too late, but could i have the info you gave to Jesper? O-)

i’ve been fighting with the “Unable to parse null body data mapped class is not defined” for 3 days.

ZF 1.7.2 had it. I switched to 1.7.7. It’s still there.
You can easily get VOs out from a ZendAMF gateway, but how do you get them past ‘into’ it?

>>Probably because you should not trust a VO coming from Flex…
You shouldn’t and mustn’t. But, being a lazy developer (and maybe following “promoted” ‘best-practices’) you don’t want to pass an object as a bunch of params to a method.

To be more specific, in a futile attempt to get some skills, i’m trying to put together a simple ‘music album management app’ (simple CRUD). Listing the albums (and mapping PHP-VOs to Flex-VOs) wasn’t a problem.
What you want to do now – is create the entry in the db-table, and, have
Something like: Flex->ZendAMF->Albums->

i might be a bit too late, but could i have the info you gave to Jesper? O-)

i’ve been fighting with the “Unable to parse null body data <Flex alias VO for PHP> mapped class <PHP VO> is not defined” for 3 days.

ZF 1.7.2 had it. I switched to 1.7.7. It’s still there.
You can easily get VOs out from a ZendAMF gateway, but how do you get them past ‘into’ it?

>>Probably because you should not trust a VO coming from Flex…
You shouldn’t and mustn’t. But, being a lazy developer (and maybe following “promoted” ‘best-practices’) you don’t want to pass an object as a bunch of params to a method.

To be more specific, in a futile attempt to get some skills, i’m trying to put together a simple ‘music album management app’ (simple CRUD). Listing the albums (and mapping PHP-VOs to Flex-VOs) wasn’t a problem.
What you want to do now – is create the entry in the db-table, and, quite trivially, have something like:
Flex->ZendAMF->Albums->addAlbum(VOAlbum)
and not like
Flex->ZendAMF->Albums->addAlbum(id, title, artist, year)

Of course, inside of the ‘addAlbum’ method, you do all kinds of checks, validation, sql screening, etc.

If the VO doesn’t really have many properties, then it’s not too tough to type them all into params of the method. But, when you’re not quite sure about your VO, its params, the order of the params, the number of props in your VO scrolls down 2 pages or you’re that ‘confused over life’ person like me, then it becomes a mess and a headache.

Really a deadpoint…

my finger slipped – please delete my previous post O-)

It seems i have found a possible fix (/my mistake) to “Unable to parse null body data mapped class is not defined” error.

i was using “$server->addDirectory(‘../Common’)” and thus, expecting that no ‘require_once’ statements for VOs will be necessary (since those actually appear within the ’service’ class).

Well, as soon as i added ‘require_once VOAlbum.php’ to the top of the file – everything worked – Zend Amf got the typed data (‘addAlbum (VOAlbum)’).

The other way to do it – is through the ‘include_path’ like:
$inc_paths = array();
$inc_paths[] = ‘../../libs/ZF/1.7.7/library/’;
$inc_paths[] = ‘../Common/’;
$inc_paths[] = get_include_path();
$inc_paths = implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, $inc_paths);
set_include_path( $inc_paths );

Both seem to work fine.

Sorry for causing confusion, Wade O-)

Hope this helps someone save some time and nerves.

Wade do you have any benchmark tests for ZendAmf and AMFPHP?
I’d like to see them.
To me I don’t really see a reason to move to ZendAmf.
Do you mind giving some benefits?

It would be much appreciated!

-Alrick

@David
I am having the exact same problem as well, did you ever get this figured out? I know its nothing in my PHP logic, nor the AS3 code. I call the same function but pass it something other than an array, it works. I pass an array and I get a CallBadVersion error.

@Ben
Interestingly enough, I change the default encoding to AMF0 and it works. Seems to be a problem. I am currently using Zend 1.8.

To give Alrick’s post a Bump..

Wade do you have any benchmark tests for ZendAmf and AMFPHP?
I’d like to see them.

Do you mind giving some benefits?
My personal case is working strictly in Flash AS3 ( not flex )