1. Building mobile and tablet applications in Flex and PHP with Flash Builder for PHP Kevin Schroeder Zend Technologies

2. About Kevin Past: Programming/Sys Admin Current: Technology Evangelist/Author/Composer @kpschrade

4. Agenda The basics Creating a project Working with MXML Working with ActionScript Connecting to PHP

5. The Basics What is Flash? A platform for building highly interactive web content What is AIR? A runtime of the Flash environment for the desktop What is ActionScript The natively supported programming language for building more than just simple graphic animations What is Flex? An SDK for building Rich Internet Applications in Flash/ActionScript

6. Flash/Flex Projects

7. Creating a project ( w/ PHP ) Connects the projects

8. Flex Project Basics AIR projects will have an Application Descriptor file Defines Application Name Versioning Initialization settings Width Height Visible Etc. etc. etc. Etc. etc. etc. Flex/web projects inherit this from the browser

9. MXML

10. MXML An XML-based UI markup language Describes UI elements Position Data Bindings Events Two primary component sets (for widgets) MX – the older brother (Flex 3) Spark – the new hotness (Flex 4) Most of what you need to do will be in Spark

11. MXML Example XML Namespace declaration for Flex (non-visual, generally) XML Namespace declaration for Spark Components

12. MXML – Adding a component Choosing from a list of Spark Components

13. MXML – Creating Flex Elements Defining local ActionScript container Defining local data container

14. MXML – Binding Static Data Declared a data source Accessed the data source

15. MXML - Events Event callback Defining the event

16. MXML – Events (alternatively)

17. ActionScript

18. ActionScript ActionScript is what makes Flash interesting Strong Typing (optional) Object Oriented Embeddable in MXML or writable in standard class files

19. Language Features Very similar syntax to Java Object Oriented Namespaced Variables defined with a var keyword Variable type definitions are done with a semi-colon Casting is done with an as keyword Event Driven - No threading

20. Language Features Namespace Return Value Type Variable Type Casting Type Declaration Variable Declaration Variable Type Checking Event Based

21. Remoting

22. Action Message Format Protocol for serializing objects to/from a Flash player Supports strong typing of data Support in multiple languages Support for any binary transport that ActionScript supports Two versions AMF0 AMF3

23. Zend_Amf A Zend Framework based component to facilitate connections to Flash Two mechanisms Direct Serializer Used for non-service endpoints (SMTP, Stomp, File System) Generally not what you will use Zend_Amf_Server Used for service-based endpoints Manages calls to service classes similar to MVC Generally what you will use

24. Direct Serializer Create an object Create the output stream Create the serializer Write the object Get the output from the stream Weird, but required

25. Reading the (PHP) serialized object Not just for PHP! Regular binary data Magic!

26. PHP Application Building a Service Oriented Architecture Flash Application Service Call 1 Service Call 3 HTTP Gateway Service Class 1 Service Class 2 Service Class 3 Service Class 4

27. A Simple Architecture Libraries and Value Objects* Document Root Services to expose */services is not in the include_path, otherwise value objects would go there

28. Integrating into your own application Define service classes Bootstrap your application Call Zend_Amf_Server

29. Demo : Creating and binding a PHP endpoint (slides would mean endless screen shots that would result in… well… this:

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