Thanks Phil I'm going to try the Restaurant example over the next few days and see how I get on.
Duncan Phil Marston wrote On 06/08/06 16:26,: > > > Hi Duncan, > > I think you're getting into some specifics to do with your setup I can't > answer. I've only briefly touched F1.5 and am really only learning F2.0 > just now as well. > > I'm busy trying to follow the restaurant example while coding for Flex > 2.0 and AMFPHP (which is an interesting learning curve), but I take from > it that if you create your RemoteObject based on the info at the > amfphp.org site you should be able to follow the rest of the restaurant > tut OK. > > As regards "how would I for example define a fully qualified source" I'm > not sure what you mean, but if you use Mike's example of a service and > put it in your amfphp installations service directory - so the php class > is fooService and the filename is fooService you would configure the > RemoteObject source attribute to be fooService. As for args I'm not > sure on restrictions, but I would've thought sending a VO would be > better. The nature of using remoting and AMFPHP is that you can send > actionscript objects and the remoting handles turning into the > appropriate object for the language at the other end (PHP in this case) > you service can then take the properties and do with them as you will, > instead of args. Does that make sense or even help? > > As for http and amf I think they're two different things - the way I > think of it is that amf is your object expressed as a sort of binary > form of xml (a bitstream or something) and http is the protocol used to > send it. I may be wrong though! There are far more knowledgeable > people on this list that could clarify that. > > HTH > > Phil > > Duncan McMillan wrote: > >>Thanks Phil >> >>I have further questions if you don't mind: >> >>So I get from your "restaurant" link below that I have to use the >>RemoteObject within Flex, but it says that these are used to reference >>Java objects in the Java application server. But what I need is to >>reference a php service in an XAMPP Apache server on the same labtop as >>my Java application with Flex 1.5. >> >>So I take it that the info in the "otherplatforms" link will do this if >>I specify the gateway in the RemoteObject tab and the php service in the >>source? >> >>So how would I for example define a fully qualified source under my >>XAMPP apache server for instance? and am I restricted to the amount of >>args I reference? >> >>This example also says that the protocol is http, do I not want to >>output in AMF to be quicker? >> >>Thanks for your patience >> >>Duncan >> >> >>Phil Marston wrote On 06/07/06 14:49,: >> >> >>>If you're using F1.5 also check out this tut I found yesterday >>>http://coenraets.com/tutorials/restaurant/index.jsp - handy for F2.0 as >>>well if you've done Mike's tut >>> >>>HTH >>> >>>Phil >>> >>>Phil Marston wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi Duncan, >>>> >>>>The .as file does go at the same level as the .mxml file, but I don't >>>>think it'll work with 1.5 because the class libraries are different - >>>>RemotingConnection extends NetConnection and the whole structure of >>>>remoting seems to be different in Flex 2.0 >>>> >>>>There's stuff on the AMFPHP site though about Flex 1.5 at the bottom >>>>of this page http://www.amfphp.org/docs/otherplatforms.html - if you >>>>get a 404 error just keep trying the server seems to be a bit flakey. >>>> >>>>HTH >>>> >>>>Phil >>>> >>>>Duncan McMillan wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Phil >>>>> >>>>>So do you mean that you put this RemotingConnection.as file in the same >>>>>DIR as the mxml file? I'm using Flex 1.5 and this example is not working >>>>>for me and complaining about the same thing. >>>>> >>>>>I've also tried to take the package declaration out (as I'm not sure if >>>>>Flex1.5 likes package declarations) and it still doesn;t work >>>>> >>>>>Thanks again >>>>> >>>>>Duncan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Phil Marston wrote On 06/02/06 12:01,: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>OK - so looks like I dumb! >>>>>> >>>>>>For those of you who also turn out to be dumb ;-p when Mike speaks about >>>>>>you already having RemotingConnection.as at the root of your project you >>>>>>actually need to save the follow package code as RemotingConnection.as >>>>>>and then you WILL have it! 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