Comments on: Bootstrap file for Zend Amf

By: How to properly use Zend_Test and Zend_AMF - Zend Framework Forum

How to properly use Zend_Test and Zend_AMF - Zend Framework Forum — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:58:54 +0000

[...] "right" way to build my unit tests. I am using Zend_AMF configured the way Wade Arnold recommended on his blog. In a nutshell, I am not using Controllers at all. I basically do [...]

By: wadearnold

wadearnold — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:08:34 +0000

@Renato & @jan The good thing about the framework is that there are people with opinions. The bootstrap configuration that I suggested is based on personal preference and feedback from my zend liaison. I don’t believe that this is a right or wrong question but a personal preference. Look at Zend_Amf_Response_Http as that is where the headers are being set. This could be removed but please open a ticket as community feedback so that we can get the community’s opinion on removing the headers from the response.

By: Renato Bejarano

Renato Bejarano — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:39:37 +0000

Hi Wade, I am sorry to tell you that I totally agree with Jan Viehweger. I have been trying effortless to integrate the AMF server with the mvc integration, either setting it up in the bootstrap file or a Stefan suggested in a controller. I don’t know how it was done before, but it seemed to me with the newest version I downloaded I had some problems. I couldn’t use echo (server->handle()) before dispatching the controller, because of the HTTP header being different than text/html. And whenever I just put server->handle(), without echo after dispatching the controller I got the page rendered but I didn’t get responses from the amf server. It was a pain hoping to find a complete sample integrating an amf server with the mvc model in the zend framework. (Which is basically the heart of the zend framework). And of course I couldn’t find, because what you expect that would be normal, actually doesn’t work like that. Please warn this in your documentation, and give a technical explanation, so it wouldn’t sound that weir what you are proposing here in this post.

Thanks

By: Jan Viehweger

Jan Viehweger — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:11:19 +0000

@Stefan Schmalhaus:
i think your solution is quite clever. i’ve tested it and it just works fine. but then i’ve read wades comment, which insecured me a little bit …

@wadearno:
i understand you (rhetorical) question cause it’s obvious, that the indirect call “will slow down the response time of your service”. but for me as a newbee to zend_amf and zend framework the question comes: why zend_amf is a part of zend framework, if i should not use the mvc integration of the zend framework?

please don’t understand me wrong. i realy love zend_amf cause it’s much more flexible than amfphp. but it makes me feel uncomfortable if zend_amf has to be treated different than the rest of the framework …

best regards
jan viehweger

By: wadearnold

wadearnold — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:00:33 +0000

@Stefan Schmalhaus What is the benefit for a hybrid application in using the controller to handle the amf request?

By: Stefan Schmalhaus

Stefan Schmalhaus — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:00:06 +0000

In case you want to build a hybrid application with both Flex and HTML interfaces, it’s not a good idea to put all Zend AMF-related code inside the bootstrap file. For more flexibility, I suggest to set up the Zend AMF server inside a regular Zend controller that can be used as AMF gateway:

http://blog.log2e.com/2008/12/14/utilizing-the-zend-amf-server-inside-a-zend-controller/

By: Stefan Schmalhaus

Stefan Schmalhaus — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:22:27 +0000

I blogged on utilizing Zend_Db and Zend_Config for Zend_Amf:
http://blog.log2e.com/2008/11/26/whats-in-the-zend-framework-for-the-flashflex-developer/

By: Stefan Schmalhaus

Stefan Schmalhaus — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:19:57 +0000

How about using Zend_Db::factory() inside the bootstrap file?

By: Adnan Doric

Adnan Doric — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:04:47 +0000

Hello Wade,

I have a problem with class mapping. I try to use the remoting example (zend-php-samples) with ContactDAO class as following :

bootstrapamf.php :
$server = new Zend_Amf_Server();
$server->setClass( “ContactDAO” );
$server->setClassMap( “ContactDTO”, “Contact” );

Everything works fine, but in ContactDAO, function getContacts() returns an array of contacts but in Flex they are not typed.

ContactDTO.as :
[RemoteClass(alias="Contact")]
[Bindable]
public class ContactDTO
{
public var id : int;
public var firstname : String;
public var lastname : String;
public var email : String;
public var mobile : String;
}

Any help on this please ?

By: wadearnold

wadearnold — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:50:36 +0000

Yes this was recommended to me by Matthew Weier O’Phinney and I just assume that he speaks the truth.