Comments on: Issues with Zend AMF? Let’s get them resolved before ZF 1.8

By: sideDoor

sideDoor — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:51:23 +0000

@ my comment above:

This is not an issue with Zendamf, but rather Zend_Db, and to resolve the issue I enforced the character set of the persistent db connection to UTF-8 by using the following statement in the Zend_Db::factory parameters:

‘driver_options’ => array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => ‘SET NAMES utf8′)

By: sideDoor

sideDoor — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:13:39 +0000

Thank you for all your work, of course!

I’m not sure where else to post this (is there a Zendamf forum?), so:

There seems to be an issue passing special character values via Zendamf. I’ve written an application that deals with multiple languages. While querying a database that returns data including French-text characters (ie: Québec), the result returned from Zendamf is not handling the special characters (ie: instead of Québec, we receive Qu�c).

I’ve checked the output of the data via Php: the issue is not with the database result – the characters are returned correctly from the database to the Php result-set – I am able to print these characters correctly before they are sent through Zendamf, either by rendering them in HTML or by writing them to a log file.

However, once I plug the SQL result into an object and pass it to Zendamf, the special characters get mangled. Using Charles Web Debugging Proxy, I can see that the result values are mangled before they are passed back to my AS3 application.

Any ideas here? Thanks so much!

By: Eric Heimburg

Eric Heimburg — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:21:59 +0000

(That was with the 1.7.8 release.)

By: Eric Heimburg

Eric Heimburg — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:20:03 +0000

Hi Wade, we ran into a bug yesterday. Using all generic objects and arrays, we had an object nested a couple levels deep that had an array of objects as one of its members. Only the first element of the array had the correct contents; the rest were gibberish.

We worked around this by switching from AMF3 to AMF0, where the problem no longer occurred.

By: moses

moses — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:09:23 +0000

Ok, I just figured it out. I use FlashDevelop on WinXP – sometimes I use Scintilla to edit PHP pages. When I created the service class (that is giving me the problems) whichever editor I was using caused extra characters to creep in with the output.

When I concluded this was the problem I created a new service class (copy of the working one) and this solved the problem.

By: Ugo

Ugo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:22:10 +0000

What about returning mysql_result resultset as amfphp do?

By: moses

moses — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:03:47 +0000

I’ve had a problem with Zend AMF for a while now. (great work on the ZMF plugin, Wade) Some of my service classes always return ‘text/html’ as instead of ‘application/x-amf’. These classes are almost exactly the same only for a few extra functions here and there.

I call two methods from two different service classes. I changed both these methods so that they return strings.

My best bet is that somewhere PHP sends unknown characters with the response and results in it being interpreted as text. But I can not find these characters anywhere!

I guess I should be crying to PHP and not Zend ZMF or even the Zend MVC…

By: Current Undone

Current Undone — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:18:19 +0000

Current Undone :
Current Undone : Hi Wade, I could not integrate Flex within my Zend Framework website, built using Zend_Server thus uses port forwarding. I tried all approaches…. Made the gateway controller with an action as AMF Server/Made Gateway file available in the Public directory of the Zf website. Nothing works for me. Sincerely request you to guide me, if its not an issue. regards, Current Undone PS: Am using version 1.7.5 of Zf

By: Current Undone

Current Undone — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:17:08 +0000

Current Undone : Hi Wade, I could not integrate Flex within my Zend Framework website, built using Zend_Server thus uses port forwarding. I tried all approaches…. Made the gateway controller with an action as AMF Server/Made Gateway file available in the Public directory of the Zf website. Nothing works for me. Sincerely request you to guide me, if its not an issue. regards, Current Undone

By: Current Undone

Current Undone — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:15:24 +0000

Hi Wade,
I could not integrate Flex within my Zend Framework website, build using Zend_Server thus uses port forwarding.
I tried all approaches…. Made the gateway file as Index controller/Made Gateway file available in the Public directory of the Zf website.
Nothing works for me.
Sincerely request you to guide me, if its not an issue.

regards,
Current Undone