Gwoo: I am really sorry for insulting you (and probably others) by not phrasing my question more carefully. I was really trying be humble about my insight into how to setup Apache and PHP plugins.
The reason I had such a hard time believing that CakeAMF requires a compiled extension is because it is quite a contrast to the stance of Cake itself. While many PHP-projects have dropped PHP4 Cake still retains compatibility to be installable on the widest possible base of servers. So, I assumed I had missed something. I totally get the effort involved in something as crazy-complex as writing an interface for a proprietary and "compiled" data-format. From what I have found out for myself, there are two paths to take to get CakeAMF running without the extension. I could try to either hook up AMFPHP to replace the two extension-functions used or try to "port" the extension to php-code. Initially, the first option looks like the best one. (If I ever get any of these working I will, of-course, make it available.) Tom: I guess that in a years time you may be right. Hosting is changing and a shared server costs about as much now as a "simple account" did not long ago. Many Flash-apps are short-time campaigns and similar stuff. In these cases you sometimes have to fight for php and a database. :) Not many Flash-apps require remoting, but many could benefit from using it. I have used it on apps with a very slim backend simply because there is not data-conversion overhead. There is also the benefit of less memory-usage on the client (Flash has no garbage collection for loadvars and xml) and it makes "casual hacking" more difficult when you are storing scores in competitions and such. /Martin On Apr 11, 4:49 pm, Gwoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The reason I ask something that even to me sounds exceptionally stupid > > is that I can't really believe that CakeAMF was purposely built to > > only run on custom PHP-installs... > > The only thing that "sounds exceptionally stupid" is the tone of your > message and your perceived attitude. Let me re-phrase your message, so > hopefully you will learn something. > > "From time to time I use Flash on projects and have previously used > CakeAMFPHP. I noticed that this project is no longer being actively > developed. I certainly appreciate the effort that was made and I am > happy to see a newly supported CakeAMF plugin. This plugin seems much > lighter and easier to manage. However, currently the plugin does not > work on shared hosts without asking for the amfext pecl extension to > be installed. I had a quick look at the code and noticed that some > initial efforts were made to make the plugin work without the > extension. I would like to know if there is anyway I can help, so that > for my next Flash project I can use the plugin. Thanks again." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
