Thanks for sharing!

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.

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.

Nah, it just rocks.

Last year, I read almost all online tutorials, and also read O’Reilly’s Flash Remoting book. Then I developed all my RIA projects with amfphp whenever we needed backend scripting. The only reason I had to use amfphp was because of my manager at work. He was so interested in seeing the source codes developed using classes etc. As a result, he would be able reuse the code again without recoding it; It turned out that the only good thing about amfphp was when the binary data had to proccessed. I believe, this truth could save my time if I knew it before.