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Archive for January, 2007

Amfphp 1.9 beta 2 - ridiculously faster

Amfphp 1.9 beta 2 is now available for download. This is a HUGE release, making amfphp the fastest Remoting implementation ever (I kid you not).

Remoting at the speed of C

As I’ve mentioned earlier, there are many potential bottlenecks in a Remoting implementation which can affect speed. AMF encoding and decoding at the PHP level is […]

Why you shouldn’t use class mapping and VOs in amfphp

I am not one to start a fight over the use of this or that pattern, but since Flex 2 has arrived, a lot of people have started using VOs, TOs and DTOs (which are more or less the same, as I understand it) in amfphp, a trend I have some issues with.

What other people […]

Amfphp-frameworks integration - make yourself known

( Remoting and PHP )

I’ve added a page on amfphp.org that shows the current amfphp-frameworks integration efforts. We currently have working/in development integrations for CakePHP, Drupal, Seagull and PostNuke. Frameworks integration is top-priority in amfphp 2.0 (along with amf3, json and xml-support, service browser enhancements, and a super secret feature that will rock your world that will be revealed […]

Tutorial: Flex 2 and amfphp 1.9

( News )

Quite a few of you requested a tutorial on getting amfphp 1.9 running with Flex 2 and RemoteObject. Alessandro Crugnola, aka sephiroth, has posted a complete tutorial on the subject. Thanks Alessandro!

View it here.

AS3 decompiler

( News )

These two blog posts in French passed under the radar, so I am translating and posting them here. Basically, the Tamarin tools include an actionscript byte code (abc) decompiler, which can generate readable pseudocode from swf or abc files. This pseudocode could then be processed to generate actual AS3 code. Awesome, indeed.

Here is what follows. […]