Zend and the Adobe Flash Platform eSeminar
Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:00 A.M. PST – Register Now
Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are everywhere. With Web businesses like Google and Yahoo! and brick and mortar companies like Harley Davidson and Sherwin Williams embracing RIAs for their online presence, the media buzz is giving way to the reality of a better Internet.
Adobe has recently contributed AMF support to the Zend Framework, allowing PHP developers to easily build Rich Internet Applications using Flex and Adobe AIR that interact with a PHP backend.
Lee Brimelow, a technical evangelist with Adobe, will give an introduction to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR, and will walk through how to create a Flex application powered by PHP and the Zend Framework. Working with Zend Studio for Eclipse, and Flex Builder (an Eclipse plugin), Lee will demonstrate how to build, debug and deploy applications built with Adobe Flex, and how to have these same applications run on the desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime.
With this knowledge, developers will be able to easily build rich Internet applications that combine data from PHP and rich media like audio and video into a compelling application.
Hello Wade;
I believe the work you’re doing in Zend_Amf is excellent. But do not think that those leaving aside the design goals of AMFPHP:
- Quick installation and implementation
- Nothing required – PHP4/PHP5 compatible, no extensions needed
- Low footprint, lightweight, fast
- Convention over configuration (service and class mapping)
- Can be embedded into a framework (see CakeAmfphp, Seagull)
- Services are “non-specific” PHP classes that are portable to anything without code change
- Productivity tools included (service browser, code gen, profiling)
- Batteries included – XML-RPC, JSON
- Not a framework by itself (use your own)
- Examples
- Mimic the AMF specification
I think that some of these goals are being ignored when they entered the Zend draft. I really think that AMFPHP can be more powerful than any other implemented in a framework.
Do not get me wrong, work in Zend_Amf is promising and with a great vision. But a different view to that of the creator of AMFPHP.
I just see comments like: “Congratulations”, “will be hoping that” and so on. I tell you: I help with AMFPHP (on everything: site, code, etc.). Only tell me what you need and how we organize ourselves. It may be a noob in team work, but I feel good in the development of PHP and AS.
PS: Excuse my poor English. I’m Mexican.
Hi Wade,
Would it be possible for you to update the Zend_AMF documentation to cover how your lazy directory loader works with flex in respect to remoteobject?
I found this to be a bit of stumbling block. I ended up with a perfect setup (thanks a bunch) however trying to figure out the proper source attribute in remoteobject with the . or _ notation and the corresponding class names and directory structure in php was a little frustrating.
I think I was probably misapplying the definition. A little elaboration would help immensely. Or perhaps a longer description of the difference between the 2 notations and the class names and directories used.
I would send an update myself however I wasn’t able to setup a working example for the . notation.
Thanks Again!
Wade,
It is good to hear that Lee Brimelow will be guiding developers on creating a flex application (PHP+Zend). I have been a regular follower of Lee’s blog and have viewed several tutorials made by him.
I think Zend is awesome too, and with Adobe contributing to RIA development, we can certainly expect a better internet experience!