Thank you for telling me. Could you log a bug at http://bugs.adobe.com ?

many thanks!

I think you didn’t install the Zend framework into your php.ini file. maybe the path is wrong, or you forgot to add, or to restart the server.

that’s really strange with working on one machine and not on another. I suspect is a problem with PHP version or configuration.

I really don’t know what to say It should work. Is your PHP method returning something?

I have a wild quess that maybe some of your PHP still has a problem. Could be a space after the PHP closing tag (?>) or something like this. Other than that I don’t have any idea

“faultCode:Client.Error.DeliveryInDoubt faultString:’Channel disconnected’ faultDetail:’Channel disconnected before an acknowledgement was received’”

I’m on Vista. The path is correct, the file is absolutely at the path I have set, and I’ve only copied the XML directly from your tutorial.

I do get an XML warning, but not sure how that would affect it …

No grammar constraints (DTD or XML schema) detected for the document. services-config.xml

regarding your first issue, are you on Mac or win; most probably either the path isn’t correct or is some type in the xml file

regarding the upgrading the zend framework, just go to Window > Preferences, then select from the left tree PHP > PHP variables and then add new framework in the list

Man, I really couldn’t tell without having access to your server. The only idea I have:
- see if it is running in the browser http://localhost/zendamf_remote
if you get errors, then probably you either didn’t configure zend framework or you have some typos in the php

I am having trouble though, I get the error that services_config.xml cannot be opened. The file is in the root director of the project and this has been correctly added to the flex compiler options per your turorial. My path is correct, and the file does exist in the exact location on the filesystem. This is on Vista. Any ideas?

One other question - is there a way to update Zend Studio to use ZF 1.7, so that we can just create a “Zend Framework Project” instead of “PHP Project” and still get Zend AMF for Flex?

Thanks!
Jeremy

Thanks for pointing this!

while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($result,”VOAuthor”)) {
$ret[] = $row;
}

My 2 cents ;).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best Regards,
Steve Solomon
steve@totalqualityphoto.com
http://www.totalqualityphoto.com

The other one is a great one I will give you later

I’ve developed Flex Air application that consumes Web services on telephony server. I’ve added Authorization header to enable Basic http authentication; the problem I have is that “someone” (Flex Air engine?) asks for security certificate every time the Web service is invoked. I can’t force the application to import the certificate (in “Security Alert” window it says “The import was successful”, but next time when the service is invoked, it is the same story). The service returns valid result.

Application written in C#, which consumes same Web service with same credentials and on same client workstation works fine.

Any idea how to proceed?

Thx,
Dejan

I’d been banging my head against the keyboard trying to get AMFPHP to return my objects, until I ran across your article. No other tutorial seemed to mention that you needed to place them in services/vo/.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers!

Cumapara unu si baga scriptu sa faca backup in nestire si le consume tot hardu de pe server sa vedem ce motiv baga atunci

@younes
Great! I also love to use AMF with PHP. There is a new project for this kind of work Zend AMF.
Anyway, can you point me to some of your public projects with Flex and PHP? Thanks!

I think the problem is that item is not of type claz. Thus, when you do:
temp = item; you get the warning because the two variables have different types.

I wrote an article on saving ArrayCollection to disk in AIR. And what is happening, is that the type of the items is lost when you read the array from disk. You could use my function I am giving in this post.

By the way, you can see for yourself what is happening if you launch the project in debug mode and you place a break point where you assign the item to the temp. And check what types they have.

>>2)What kind of data does AMFPHP pass back to Actionscript?
Here is a resource to see the mapping between the ActionScript types and PHP: http://amfphp.org/docs/datatypes.html

Take a look at my article on Flex and PHP with AMFPHP http://corlan.org/2008/10/10/flex-and-php-remoting-with-amfphp/

Been trying to create a user authentication using Flex 3 and AMFPHP. What happens in my case is that the PHP function works in the service browser, but when i try to pass variables into the PHP function (using remote object), either the variables are not being passed in or the PHP function is not returning the variable i need for other checking purposes.

Just a few questions after reading the tutorial:
1) Is it necessary to use the AsyncToken for user authentication?
2) What kind of data does AMFPHP pass back to Actionscript?

Thanks in advance for the help.

I have modified the serialToVO function b/c i’m not working with any XML…all i did was remove the 2nd for loop…but i keep getting an error…any advice would be great. Thanks.

private function serialToVo (collection:Object, claz:Class):ArrayCollection

{
var arr:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection();

for each (var item:Object in collection) {

var temp:Object = new claz()
temp = item;
arr.addItem(temp);

}

The only public one (and the one with less time devoted) is the company website at http://www.bedrockgroup.co.uk In this one all the server side, CMS, tracking and filesystem (for the newsletter) is PHP and MySQL based.

See you around at Max-Milan in December

Of course, you can send the info by email. I said that in the post, but here the addresses again:
[mihai.corlan at adobe dot com or mihai at corlan dot org]

Thanks,
Gabriel

Both destination and source for AMFPHP need to be the name of the PHP class if you want not to use the remote-config.xml file. So, this is why you don’t need this configuration file.

cheers

In your RemoteObject definition you define destination=”MyService” source=”MyService”
I suppose the source is the actual php file in amfphp\services, but what should be the destination ? I thought it was the identifier of a destination defined in a config-file but I don’t see it in your services-config.xml …
Thanks,
G.

What I would do:
1. Make sure that there are no errors in the PHP class you want to call from Flex. Just open the scrip in a web browser and see if there are errors (you should have PHP configured to output the errors)
2. Make sure there are no spaces or enters before the opening and after the closing tag < ?php / ?>
3. Next I would try to reach the method using AMFPHP browser. Alternatively, you can add a small code at the top of the PHP class, to instantiate the class and call the method you want with the given arguments. This way you check that the PHP code is working correctly
4. Finally, if all the steps before were passed, you probably have something wrong on the Flex side. Either you didn’t configure correctly the RemoteObject,or the VOs or something.

While working with AMFPHP is not rocket science, it needs a lot of attention for details, and when you try for the first time it can be a little difficult.

Good luck!

Been referring to what u posted abt AMFPHP and Flex and must say its really comprehensive. Just a question though, I keep getting AMF message errors in the localhost AMFPHP browser and this causes my application to unexpectedly quit during runtime. What i’m trying to do is create a simple flex form which links to AMFPHP and inserts the data into the database.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
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We write a flex technical blog at http://www.flexer.ro (Fx{r}).

Andrei was presenting at Bucharest Flex Camp on April 2008, and one of his articles on Fx{r} was published in Flex 3 Cookbook.

Also, we are members on Romanian Flex User Group (www.fxg.ro).

Our company is developing a flex project for a company from Italy, also we are about to start a new flex project for an other company based in Finland.

I will edit my post to add an answer to your questions shortly.

thanks!

Ce fel de privacy policy se aplica daca ma inscriu?

Voi dati lista de consultanti oricui? Voi primi spam in cazul acesta?

Second, Godaddy gave me my data and refund the money, so I think everybody is happy.

As a final note, my sites remain on Godaddy’s Servers - I am using the Unlimited plan.

Hang on, Mihai and Adam! You are not alone!

Maybe I should pay them a visit! Or send a lawywer…
How come they don’t get their shit together and solve the situation?? It could happen to any of us again (who knows, I could be the next)

I will write about this awkward matter on my tech blog http://www.mytestbox.com because I have a section dedicated to Web Hosting.

Following my GoDaddy situation and story in the Huffington Post, I just wrote up yours as well:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-fendelman/i-didnt-owe-godaddy-65795_b_134528.html

Norocul meu e ca daca incearca sa-mi traga tzeapa ma duc peste ei (locuiesc la vreo 20 km de sediul lor din Scottsdale).

Thanks a lot! I received an email from them, and they started an internal investigation and they will let me know within hours about the result. Thanks again my friend.

I will update my post as soon as I have a final resolution from them.

Yes, we keep in mind that possibility, but strive to keep everything automatic where we can

In our particular case, we came to a solution, which works in my tests now (our QA will let me know better does it really work as requested).

So, our task is: detect the case when application is re-installed (installed after uninstall, the same version) and perform some actions, e.g. say to user: “Welcome back!” (actually, customer requested us to clean ELS in this case).

Solution is: to compare time of application install with application last run time.

In details:

1. At runtime, get app install time from applicationDirectory.modificationTime.

2. If ELS has variable ‘lastRunTime’, get it too and:

2.1 Compare these values. If last run time is less than application install time, than our app was reinstalled and we can do our special actions. Else, we run in normal mode.

This is the logic which can be unclear for someone who are going to maintain the code, but it seems to work

Thank you,
Rost

I just let the right people at GoDaddy know this just happened to you. I hope they choose to fairly rectify it for you as well. You should have just received an e-mail from me.

I use them since some time now and recently I moved my wordpress-based blog there, works without problems.

To your specific problem, for now I have only one solution. To create an uninstall procedure in the AIR application that does that: delete all the user data wrote by the application. And then the user uninstall the app from the disk. But this approach relies heavily on the user (he start the unistall in the AIR before he unistall the app from system).

@all
In the meantime what hosting company do you use and do you trust?

If you haven’t already paid the $800, it might not be a bad idea to follow the same steps that Adam did to get the matter resolved. There’s no way you should be paying that much money to resolve an error they basically caused.

approach you propose seems to be really only one possible.

If I understood you correctly, update detection is performed in ‘old version’ just when app checks for updates. So, app have a chance to detect the next installation.

But it has some limitations. If user just uninstalls the application using standard system tools and then installs new version again, application can’t detect it by itself and so isn’t able to make this trick with local storage.

It seems it is very hard to overcome such issues without having real install / uninstall events in the AIR framework. While there’s no such events, developers should invent workarounds to detect such user actions by saving special version files in the application directory and then checking them each time application is run. What do you think, is this possible to have uninstall event in the future version of AIR Runtime?

Here’s the another example, where such event is strongly needed: my customer asked me to clear user-sensitive data when AIR App is uninstalled. But there’s no way to do it now…

I only used them twice to buy a domain but never for hosting. That is clearly a company driven by greed, just have a look at their website with zillions of ads.

Just get your webspace from a real hosting companies and keep local backups.

Would you please give me direction on how i can deploy both java and flex in one go. Flex and Java is deploy in weborb and weborb is then deploy in tomcat. What will be the setting for the J2EE server? Should i point to Weborb or the tomcat server?

I don’t know if this choice is about best practices or more about personal preferences. For example some people from our team prefer to work with combined WTP / Flex projects, others don’t. I think the best thing is to try both approaches and decide yourself which one works the best for you.

2. Usually a token is a string of 32 chars or more. Each user must have an unique token, and many people are generating using a hash function such as MD5.