Getting Started with Flex and PHP

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Agenda What is Flex? Flex and PHP: The Why and the Workflows Advanced PHP Features with Flex Using PHP and the Flash Platform

Flex is Not: Basic Animations Banner Ads Simple Video Menu Bars Small Pieces of Interactivity

Simple Animation, Vector Graphics, Banner Ads, Progressive Video Interactive Widgets, Streaming Video, Advanced Drawing, Sound Generation, Filters/Effects Real-Time Collaboration Data Visualization, Gestures RIAs, Games HTML5 Flex Pyramid of Flash Features and Use Cases

Flex is for Developers Open Source SDK Familiar Programming Model 3rd Party Libraries and Frameworks Developer Tutorials

Flex is Rich, Extensible Components

Flash Builder Built on Eclipse Code completion, syntax highlighting Includes debugger, network monitor Build desktop or browser apps

Other Flex Developer Tools Visual Studio Plugin IntelliJ TextMate Bundles

In-Browser Applications Desktop/Mobile Apps Flex Framework Components, Data Connection APIs, Compiler, Debugger, Validators, Effects PHP Code Exposed as Services that connects calls data from external data sources XML / JSON / AMF / HTTP(S) / SOAP / Socket / RTMP Compile to SWF Package How Flex and PHP Work Together

<XML> Data Formats with Flex/PHP {JSON} 010000010100110101000110 (AMF)

Create PHP classes based on a database Easily connect to any exposed services Test operations and define types Generate forms based on data types Bind data to interface components Flash Builder Data Wizards

Intro to AMF A binary file format that represents a serialized ActionScript object Created as a way to exchange data with the Flash Player Allows you to map data types to Flash Player types Open Specification

AMF and PHP Projects AMFPHP - Great, open source, easy to use, still the standard ZendAMF - Part of the Zend Framework, most up to date WebORB PHP - Part of WebORB family, comes with code generation tools SaberAMF - Lightweight AMF implementation, similar to AMFPHP

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Designing Flex The ability to tweak styles with CSS Change themes that affect every component Work with a designer to skin components

Designer/Developer Workflow Flex’s component model separates design from logic Allows developers to take and easily integrate designer content Flash Catalyst is the UI designer for Flex applications

Leveraging the Designer in Flex

Client Server Request Response Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I Going? Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I Going? Typical HTTP Call Repeat

Client Server Connection Push Socket Call

PHP Can Act as Socket Server Flex can Connect via Socket Class Provides the capability to roll your own real-time data access

Using PHP to Manage Collaboration

LiveCycle Collaboration Services Cloud-based service for collaboration Uses Flash to enable real-time data transfer Includes a PHP library for managing service

Management, authentication PHP and Collaboration

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