AMFPHP 1.0

A christmas gift to Flash users from Patrick Mineault and the team: AMFPHP is now officially released.

If you do serverside communication with Flash, you have probably used both loadVars and XML. There is a smoother and better alternative - Flash Remoting from Adobe/Macromedia. Remoting is a protocol that allows sending and receiving data from a server while still maintaining the Type of the object sent. A number is a number and an array of strings is just that - both on the server and in the Flash file. Since the protocol is binary, it's also faster than sending XML back and forth and decoding/encoding this.

Flash Remoting requires a serverside installation that prevent many people from using Remoting, but with the release of AMFPHP, Remoting is for everybody. All you need to get started is a server with PHP support and your all server communication will be much easier. Never used Remoting? Don't worry. It's not difficult and takes maybe just an hour to learn. The AMFPHP site is full of documentation and tutorial links to get you started.

Visit AMFPHP.org to read more/download

Also: EricD blogs about a christmas realease of SEPY

 

 

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