Building a Flash/PHP app without zend framework

[Godly_Dev]

I've just finished going through the Flex test drive tutorial and am very happy with the way data services makes it really easy to connect to PHP backends.

I have a PHP application that is not built using the zend framework. I wish to use the Flex framework to develop views for this application. My AMF endpoint will be provided by Zend_AMF as a controller of my application, for example: www.example.com/amf-endpoint

How do I go about connecting my amf-end point to my flex application? Am I able point Flash builder to my classes to load the methods into the data services panel (for example, inspect User.php and find the editUser and createNewUser methods)?

Cheers

[Guest]

Hi,

In applications developed by Flash Builder for PHP, the suggested flow is to use the gateway script that helps you connect Flex components and methods to the PHP endpoints of your service. More about the gateway script can be read here http://files.zend.com/help/Flash-Builder-for-PHP/Help/php_support_properties.htm#MiniTOCBookMark3

Once you use this gateway flow, you benefit from auto introspection of your PHP code and Flex source code generation for calling your services.

A full example is provided here: http://files.zend.com/help/Flash-Builder-for-PHP/Help/build_a_web_(php)_application.htm

Enjoy,

Roy