Flash Builder for PHP and Mobile development

Flash Builder/Flex with PHP on Mobile Devices
Kent Mitchell | Sr. Product Manager | Zend
Mihai Corlan | Developer Evangelist | Adobe

About Us
Kent Mitchell
Sr. Director, Product Management
kent@zend.com
Mihai Corlan
Adobe WW Developer Evangelist (since 2008)
http://corlan.org
http://twitter.com/mcorlan
mihai.corlan@adobe.com
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Zend & Adobe
PHP is the perfect back end for Mobile
Highly scalable & Light wieght
Proven technology – Over 35% of the web runs PHP today
Abode is the complete solution for rich mobile applications
Cross-device support on iOS, Android, Blackberry, Desktop
Flash Builder for PHP includes integrated Zend Studio™
Integrated development
Data & service centric development wizards for PHP and Flex
Integrated debugging (desktop->device->server)
Bringing remote server support to Flash developers
Integrated with Zend Server for a seamless runtime server

Agenda
New Flex Mobile and PHP Project
Using DCD wizards to consume PHP services
Testing your mobile Flex & PHP app on desktop and device
Debugging your application on device
Network Monitor
Q&A

Flex Mobile and PHP Project – new wizard
New wizard that creates two projects:
PHP project
Flex Mobile Project
It supports Android.
June update will enable support for BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS.

Flex Mobile and PHP Project
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Connecting to PHP Services
Flex Mobile and PHP project supports Data Centric Development
You can connect to
PHP Remoting (using the Zend Framework)
REST “Style” Service
Web Service (WSDL/SOAP)
XML Service

Testing and Debugging
You can test or debug your mobile application:
On the desktop simulator
On the device

Network Monitor
If you run or debug your application on the desktop simulator, you can use the Network Monitor view:
Inspect the data sent and received
Check the elapsed time between request and response

Running the app on the device (Testing/Debugging)
When you run the app on the desktop simulator, the Flex URLs towards the PHP services are using localhost.
When you want to run the Flex on the actual device, you’ll have to use the server IP address where the PHP services are hosted.
There are two scenarios:
If you want to debug the Flex app on the device, you’ll have to run the PHP code either on your computer or on a server that has debugging enabled;
If you want to run the Flex app on the device, you can have the PHP code deployed on a server or on your computer.

Enabling Debugging on the Device for Flex Mobile and PHP apps
Connect the mobile device to the same WiFi network as the computer on which you run the PHP code and Flash Builder for PHP (you can use a shared network from your computer)
Edit the .flexProperties file and change the serverRootURL from http://localhost/[…] to http://IP_ADDRESS/[…]
Open the Flex Service wrapper file and over write the _serviceControl.endpoint variable. You get the value you have to set by watching the value set for _serviceControl.endpoint in the _Super_ServiceName.as file while launching the app on debug mode.
Note: You have to increment the value of the debug_session_id for each launch.

Q&A
Resources:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/
http://corlan.org
Email addresses:
kent@zend.com
mihai.corlan@adobe.com
Thank you!

Demo time

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Flash Builder for PHP and Mobile development

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