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Image gallery by Sephiroth

( Remoting and Actionscript and PHP )

This may be old news, but if you haven’t seen it yet, Allessandro’s image gallery is a gorgeous application featuring all kinds of neat effects: a resizable interface, photo transitions, panaroma view with motion blur, etc. The source is available here as well. Powered by amfphp.

Maintaining a chat log in FlashCom through amfphp

( Remoting and PHP and FlashComm )

Integrating Remoting and FlashCom (or FMS2) can be quite powerful, yet the integration is so poorly documented that it’s no wonder most people don’t even try to do it.

I was asked by a client to implement a chat log for a SharedObject-based Instant messenger-like app. At that point I was a bit sceptic about the […]

amfphp 1.2 beta released

( Remoting and PHP )

I’ve just released amfphp 1.2 beta. This release brings quite a few changes, most of which I’ve already discussed here. The first thing that you’ll notice when unzipping is the folder structure change. All of the amfphp framework is now in the amf-core folder, on the same level as the services and browser. It sounds […]

Should AMFPHP 2 support JSON and XML-RPC?

( News and Remoting and PHP )

I’ve hesitated in the past on adding new features in amfphp to keep it as simple and compatible as possible. In particular, I have resisted adding new serializers and deserializers so that amfphp can be used with other things than just AMF and Flash. These days, JSON and XML-RPC are popular choices for creating AJAX […]

A great Flash-driven blog

( Remoting and Actionscript and PHP )

There have been many attempts at creating Flash-driven blogs. Some have been unusable and clunky; others have been more succesful. I recently stumbled upon this Spanish blog the other day: I must say, it is quite well done. Good UI, quick to load, nice effects, and a great showcase of amfphp. One feature I especially […]