31 May, 2003
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Flash Remoting and PHP

Macromedia's Flash Remot­ing MX has pretty good rela­tion­ships with MM's Cold­Fu­sion and Microsoft's .NET, but not too many options in PHP. Here is one suggestion.


Macromedia's Flash Remot­ing MX has pretty good rela­tion­ships with MM's Cold­Fu­sion and Microsoft's .NET, but not too many options in PHP. If your goal is to con­nect dynamic inter­ac­tive con­tent to a MySQL data­base and have it com­mu­ni­cate with PHP on the server, there have been some inter­est­ing projects of late –

  • GhostWire's PHP-Object
    With PHPOb­ject, you can call a method of a PHP class/library on your web server as if the class/library was defined in Flash itself. It takes care of your client-server con­nec­tions and makes pass­ing of vari­ables (prop­er­ties) between Flash MX and PHP easy, and thereby pro­vid­ing a con­ve­nient way to con­nect rich media clients with data and busi­ness logic resid­ing on your server. The library, together with a Web­Ser­vicesCon­nec­tiv­ityAd­dOn, also allows devel­op­ers to eas­ily con­sume Web ser­vices from within Flash MX.
  • AMFPHP
    From the good guys at Flash-DB. Feast your­self on some tuto­ri­als and dis­cus­sions.

Given that Flash's own remot­ing server costs almost 1000 US$ per CPU, these are attempts well worth watching!

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  1. monastic says: Jun 05, 200310:47 am

    if you are inter­ested in amf­php, actionscript.org has a nice tuto­r­ial:
    http://www.actionscript.org/tutorials/intermediate/PHP_Remoting/index.shtml

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