This document discusses Wade Arnold's experience with PHP and Zend Framework. It provides an overview of Wade's background working on Zend Amf and other PHP projects. It also includes examples of file structures, models, and services that demonstrate how to build a PHP application that integrates with Flash using Zend Amf. The document advocates for using standards like Zend Framework to build robust PHP applications and services.

1. @wadearnold
wadearnold.com
wade.arnold@t8webware.com

2. me?
• PHP developer who became a flash’er MX
• Wrote majority of Zend Amf & lots of
AMFPHP
• Flash Builder 4 PHP data services
• Currently
• Scala: Akka STM
• Thrift: PHP
• Hadoop: HBase, HDFS, Hive

3. Every solution I've ever seen or developed in PHP feels
clunky and bulky, there is no elegance or grace. Working
with PHP is a bit like throwing a 10 pound concrete cube
from a ten story building: You'll get where you're going
fast, but it's not very elegant. ... I love PHP, and it's the right
tool for some jobs. It's just an ugly, cumbersome tool that
makes me cry and have nightmares. It's the new VB6 in a C
dress.
Fredrik Holmstrm

5. Digg, Wikipedia, Facebook, Stumble Upon, Flicker, Tagged,
Vimeo, iStockPhoto, FeedBurner, TechCrunch,YouTube*
Written in PHP
Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla
Written in PHP

6. Some of the largest sites on the internet -- sites you
probably interact with on a daily basis -- are written in
PHP. If PHP sucks so profoundly, why is it powering so
much of the internet?
The only conclusion I can draw is that building a
compelling application is far more important
than choice of language. While PHP wouldn't be my
choice, and if pressed, I might argue that it should never be
the choice for any rational human being sitting in front of a
computer, I can't argue with the results.
Jeff Atwood
Coding Horror

10. sudo apt-get install zend-framework

13. Why ZF?
• Use-at-will Framework
• Coding Standards / Testing Standards
• BSD License (Enterprise Friendly)
• Well Documented
• Large Community
• Plenty to integrate!

14. Why us Zend_Amf?
• It handles the conversion of data types between
ActionScript and PHP
• Converts complex objects and supports class
mapping
• Access Control, Authentication, ORM, Logging,
PHP controllers, another SOA endpoint.

15. Zend_Amf works?
• It’s a basic RPC model
• SOAP, XML-RPC, REST, etc
• Call & Response

16. 1 1/2 year’s.....
• Zend Amf Beta was released Oct ‘08
• 226 bugs fixed w/ test cases
• 8 Features added
• 84 outstanding features / bugs
• 89% code coverage 100% method
• 14 SVN committers
• 3 Major refactors

17. Omar Gonzalez @s9tpepper

19. Files: Root
app/
lib/
log/
pub/
tmp/

20. Files: lib/
Zend/
Acl.php
ACL/
Auth/
Amf/
....etc.....

21. Files: pub/
css/
img/
js/
swf/
main.swf
xml/
crossdomain.xml
gateway-config.xml
.htaccess
index.php

22. Files: pub/.htaccess
1.RewriteEngine on
2.RewriteEngine ^(crossdomain.xml)$ pub/xml/crossdomain.xml
3.RewriteEngine ^(gateway-config.xml)$ pub/xml/gateway-
config.xml
4.RewriteEngine ^.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|xml|swf)$ index.php
5.
6.php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
7.php_flag register_globals off
8.php_flag display_errors on
9.
10.php_value session.auto_start 0

23. Files: pub/index.php
1.require_once './app/models/HelloWorld.php';
2./** Bootstrap */
3.
4.// Instantiate server
5.$server = new Zend_Amf_Server();
6.$server->setProduction(false);
7.Zend_Session::start();
8.$server->setSession();
9.
10.$server->addDirectory(dirname(__FILE__) .'/app/models/');
11.
12.// Add class to be reflected
13.$server->setClass('HelloWorld');
14.$server->setClass('contact.ContactDAO');
15.$server->setClass('contact.events.ContactDispatch');
16.$server->setClassMap('ContactVo',"Contact");
17.
18.// Handle request
19.$request = $server->handle();
20.echo($request);

24. Hybrid site
1.<?php
2.class GatewayController extends Zend_Controller_Action
3.{
4. public function indexAction()
5. {
6. $this->getHelper('ViewRenderer')->setNoRender();
7. $server = new Zend_Amf_Server();
8. $server->addDirectory( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../
services/' );
9. echo($server->handle());
10. }
11.}

30. Model
package com.t8.census.vo <?php
{ class Person
[Bindable] {
[RemoteClass(alias="Person")] public $id = 0;
public class PersonVO public $age = "";
{ public $classofworker = "";
public var id:int = 0; public $education = "";
public var age:int; public $maritalstatus = "";
public var classofworker:String; public $race = "";
public var education:String; public $sex = "";
public var maritalstatus:String; }
public var race:String;
public var sex:String;
}
}

31. SQL
1.CREATE TABLE `census` (
2. `age` varchar(3) DEFAULT NULL,
3. `classofworker` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
4. `education` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
5. `maritalstatus` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
6. `race` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
7. `sex` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
8. `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
9. PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
10.) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf-8

32. Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
1.class Model_DbTable_Census extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
2.{
3. protected $_rowClass = 'Model_Census';
4. protected $_name = 'census';
5.}
1.class Model_DbTable_Census extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
2.{
3. protected $_rowClass = 'Model_Census';
4. protected $_name = 'census';
5.}

33. Active Record
1.class CensusService {
2. public function getAllCensus() {
3. $tbl = new Model_DbTable_Census();
4. return $tbl->fetchAll()->toArray();
5. }
6.
7. public function getCensusByID( $itemID ) {
8. $tbl = new Model_DbTable_Census();
9. return $tbl->find($itemID)->current();
10. }
11.
12. public function createCensus( $item ) {
13. $tbl = new Model_DbTable_Census();
14. $row = $tbl->fetchNew();
15. $row->setFromArray((array)$item);
16. $row->save();
17. return $row->id;
18. }
19.}

34. Object-relational mapping
Working with Doctrine, Zend Framework, and Flex
Mihai Corlan

35. DB Resource Plugin
• Mysqli Result
• Mysql Result
public function getArrayCollection() {
$this -> connect();
$sql = "SELECT * FROM census " .
"LIMIT 100";
$result = mysql_query( $sql ) or die( "Query failed: " .
mysql_error() );
return $result;
}

36. DUDE IT’s PHP
1. public function getAllItems() {
2. $this -> connect();
3. $sql = "SELECT * FROM census";
4. $result = mysql_query( $sql ) or die( "Query failed: " .
5. mysql_error() );
6.
7. $census = array();
8.
9. while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $result ) ) {
10. $person = new Person();
11. $person -> id = $row["id"];
12. $person -> age = $row["age"];
13. $person -> classofworker = $row["classofworker"];
14. $person -> education = $row["education"];
15. $person -> maritalstatus = $row["maritalstatus"];
16. $person -> race = $row["race"];
17. $person -> sex = $row["sex"];
18.
19. array_push( $census, $person );
20. }
21. return $census;
22. }

37. Simple Rest
spl_autoload_register(); // don't load our classes unless we use
them
$mode = 'debug'; // 'debug' or 'production'
$server = new RestServer($mode);
// $server->refreshCache(); // uncomment momentarily to clear
the cache if classes change in production mode
$server->addClass('TestController');
$server->addClass('ProductsController', '/products'); // adds
this as a base to all the URLs in this class
$server->handle();

38. Authentication
public function ServiceDelegateAmf(responder:IResponder):void {
this.responder = responder;
this.service =
ServiceLocator.getInstance().getRemoteObject("zendamf");
this.service.setCredentials("wade", "arnold");
}

39. Create Auth Adapter
class RemoteUser extends Zend_Amf_Auth_Abstract
{
public function __construct($name, $role)
{
$this->_name = $name;
$this->_role = $role;
}
public function authenticate()
{
$id = new stdClass();
$id->role = $this->_role;
$id->name = $this->_name;
return new Zend_Auth_Result(Zend_Auth_Result::SUCCESS,
$id);
}
}

40. bootstrap
$this->_server = new Zend_Amf_Server();
$this->_acl = new Zend_Acl();
$this->_server->setAuth(new RemoteUser("wade", "testrole"));
$this->_acl->addRole(new Zend_Acl_Role("testrole"));
$this->_acl->allow("testrole", null, null);
$this->_server->setAcl($this->_acl);

41. Basic Service
class demo {
function hello() {
return "hello!";
}
function hello2() {
return "hello2!";
}
function initAcl(Zend_Acl $acl) {
$acl->allow("testrole", null, "hello");
$acl->allow("testrole2", null, "hello2");
return true;
}
}

42. More Auth & ACL!
• Open ID
• Ldap
• Database
• Conditional rules
• OAuth

43. What’s Next?
• Better Class Loader, AMF0 complete
• Documentation
• Adobe Evangalist, Adobe TV, DZone
• HTTP Long Pulling
• Speed
• cache reflection
• AMFEXT

44. Help?
Issue tracker
Mailing list
Documentation

45. twitter.com/wadearnold
wadearnold.com
wade.arnold@t8webware.com