Comments on: Amfphp 1.9 Beta

By: David Pesta

David Pesta — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:19:50 +0000

I have used AMFPHP enough to realize that Ozgur is right. Most of the time, the overhead of AMFPHP is just not necessary. And where AMFPHP is helpful, it’s still not necessary.

There is another reason why AMFPHP kind of sucks. It is no longer maintained by anyone. No updates for years.

By: igor

igor — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:42:06 +0000

Hi, Out there are many tutorials on “AMFPHP how to get data from PHP”. But what is with “how to get data with 1.9 AMFPHP from “CS3 to database”??

By: Ruben Rojas

Ruben Rojas — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:26:21 +0000

HEY, Excuse me, but i´m interesting in the AMFPHP and i like to try. But the server 5etedmi is down. thanks.

By: aral

aral — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:17:58 +0000

Hi Morten,

Thanks for sharing! :)

By: Morten Reinholdt

Morten Reinholdt — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:15:32 +0000

If it is of any interest I have made a small and simple tutorial on how to connect actionscript 3 whit AMFPHP 1.9 you can find it on my blog at http://flashorbit.com/?page_id=53

By: aral

aral — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:10:14 +0000

Hi Ozgur,

There is more to consider about a given workflow than raw processing time. The real advantage to remoting is in removing the serialization/deserialization/data massaging code from your application. Less code == less that can go wrong == less risk, etc. It’s also less dev time and you can concentrate on actually building the business logic instead of plumbing.

Beyond that, Patrick’s written a very nice article clear ing the FUD on Amfphp’s speed versus JSON and XML.

I don’t understand your argument against Amfphp but that’s all right: There are many ways to skin a cat and if something works better for you, of course you should use that.

By: ozgur uksal

ozgur uksal — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:23:37 +0000

hi,
if it is the task to pass strings from Flash to PHP, then use LoadVars or XML; even amfphp site suggest it at http://www.amfphp.org/amfphprocks.html :)

By: LEE

LEE — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:00:57 +0000

You can easily pass strings from Flash to PHP using amfphp. As well as arrays, and it rocks the house. You need to get aquainted with your resolver and PHP DOM.

By: ozgur uksal

ozgur uksal — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:34:10 +0000

it is stated at http://www.amfphp.org/amfphprocks.html ,
“Further advantages of Remoting

You cannot just pass a “string” from Flash to PHP, or PHP to Flash… you have to send a URL encoded string. So you have to add a little code on both ends to handle that. What if you need to send arrays? Objects? DataSets? You have to write serialization/deserialization for complex, non-primitive types to send over the wire via URL encoded strings. But why would you want to write your own classes when Remoting already does all this stuff very well?”

The solution the person at amfphp offered about handling complex data types is very inefficient. Why would I handle complex data types by writing serialization/deserialization for non-primitive types to send over the wire via URL encoded strings?
There is an easier way to handle complex data types. it is to create an “array full of objects” at the front end to store complex data types . It increases the performance, and it decreases the coding time. Therefore, amfphp sucks.

By: Jed Wood

Jed Wood — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:59:07 +0000

Ozgur-

Nah, it just rocks.