Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Remoting / May 2007

hi

i tried hi

i am having flash professionl 8 and PHP 5.0,apache 2.2 server, i tried flash
remoting using AMFPHP 1.9 beta version but no values received from php and my
flash output window is not showing any error.

i have kept the amfphp folder in htdocs which contains many folders like
core,browser,services

i have kept the php file in services folder.

but its not working.

can u plz help.

thanks

bye.

hi

thanks for your reply.

how can i know that the connection has established or not with HelloWorld.php

var service = new Service(gatewayUrl, null, "HelloWorld");
var pc:PendingCall = service.say(sMessage);
pc.responder = new RelayResponder(this, "handleSay", null);

can i trace anything with this code that connection established or not.

thanks

bye

Anyone know the status of the remoting classes for Flash CS3?

Would love to know whether we'll be seeing an RDBMSResolver or alternative class introduced for CS3.  How else to deserialize AMF packets?

Apparently no one thought they'd need remoting for cs3. I just wasted $1500 on
CS3, remoting is all my company does. I can't even open files with as 2.0 in
CS3 with flash remoting. I tried copying the folders to the new Adobe directory
and no luck.

Coldfusion is 10x faster than PHP is why people use flash remoting with
coldfusion. :)

Any work arounds yet or release date for remoting 9/as 3.0?

I haven't tried it yet, but on second thought I'm guessing one could just set a
datagrid dataProvider to the NetConnection result, and then work off of the
datagrid, but you'd still be missing the deltaPackets updates....aw oh well.  I
can't find any info from Adobe regarding anything about data components /
dataclasses for AS3/CS3

On another note, you can use AS2 remoting classes, but you have to add them to
your Classes directory.

Check it out:


http://blog.vixiom.com/2007/04/17/actionscript-20-flash-remoting-with-flash-cs3/

Come on Adobe, we need a NetConnection Debugger for Flash CS3. I can't make the move to CS3 without support for remoting. I use AMFPHP exclusively for remoting projects.

I too use Remoting extensively and feel I've just wasted the money to upgrade
from 2004 pro to CS3. With the usual level of  Actionscript support until Colin
Moock brings out his book, I can't be confident enough to begin any new
projects using the CS3 authoring environment.
Also at times the netConnection Debugger has been a lifeline to me, where is
it? A different thread questions Adobes committment to Remoting and I have to
re-iterate those concerns. I've never used the data components to resolve
returned data as I originally learnt to parse the data with AS, a process I've
continued, so I'm a bit in the dark as to what else is missing. It seems that
this new Authoring tool has been ill considered and rushed out assuming all
will embrace AS3 immediately...  it can never be that way.
I wish I could get my money back!

*Everybody* who reads this and is wondering where the hell remoting is in CS3
(or you just want an answer to Adobes commitment to remoting) post in here. The
reality is Flash 8 + AS 2.0 is *the* current tech. Developers are really
starting to push it now because of player penetration. Getting people to move
to CS3 + AS 3.0 is gonna be hard if there is to be no remoting. And this is the
kind of thing that will put me off developing full sites in Flash in the
future. Dropping things people have invested so much time in
learning/developing, who have ongoing projects in, with no word of it's future.
Flex doesn't fit the bill. Neither does ColdFusion. We need Flash Remoting!

Check the first news post on the top right here:

http://www.joshstrike.com/index3.html

I hope Adobe sorts us out.

I know there are a lot of people out there probably already saying this, but
the fact is, remoting does not work like it should for a new version of flash
here, or at a minimum, there is very little "adobe" documentation on getting to
work correctly with CS3 as we are all use to.

I did get my extensive flash remoting system to compile correctly in CS3,
obviously still using ActionScript 2.0 though.  And it was just a matter of
copying the mx classes folder.

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application
Data\Macromedia\Flash 8\en\Configuration\Classes\mx

to

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash
CS3\en\Configuration\Classes\mx

I was able to comile an extensive AMFPHP project, and also use ServiceCapture
to track packets.  I always hated the netconnection debugger they had anyway,
but if you wanted that, my understanding is just view the netconnection SWF
file and it works independently as well.

I hope that adobe does release some type of package of remoting tools like
they have in the past however.  We all know AS3 has built in flash remoting
capabilities, but where is the other tools then? where are the "adobe" examples?

hope this helps someone though...

Josh Jones
www.levelfourstorefront.com

Josh, what version of AMFPHP did you use? And did you change it for the CS3 compile?

I am using the 1.2.5 version of amfphp, the one you can download right now.  I
didn't change anything to make it work, it just needed the classes.  I just
copied the folders from above and it worked for me.

You could also just open your file, go to publish settings, and point your
flash actionscript classes to that folder as well.

I just don't understand why there is not a small remoting installation program
from adobe though to do this for us AS2 folks...

Josh Jones
www.levelfourstorefront.com

I believe amfphp's name just expired and there was some discussion else where
for some others who were willing to take it up.  You can still find the files
at sourceforge.net though.

Josh Jones
www.levelfourstorefront.com

For those of you looking to move the Flash 8 Remoting Components and
NetConnection Debugger into Flash CS3. I have posted on another thread the
steps on how to set it up. This will allow you to work just as you did in Flash
8 and AS2 in Flash CS3 IDE. Otherwise, the remoting for Flash CS3 and AS3 is
now built in.

You can view the steps here.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=25
0&threadid=1264156&enterthread=y