On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 19:00 US/Pacific, Dave Watts wrote: > I don't know why you'd say this. There isn't even a supported version > of > Flash Remoting for PHP, to the best of my knowledge.
There's an Open Source project but you don't call the server-side methods the same way as you do for 'real' Flash Remoting as far as I can tell. I need to do a little more experimentation with it to decide. When I first downloaded the code from sourceforge it didn't even work with Mac clients (ironic since an earlier version of the code *did* before it became an Open Source effort). > There aren't any great > development tools specifically for PHP that aren't available for CF. I use DWMX for all my PHP development. It's about the best thing I've found so far. A little ironic, if you ask me :) DevNet has a great set of articles on developing PHP applications: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/topics/php.html > in fairness to the present version, it's not all that hard, assuming > you > understand Flash development, to use the current IDE. ...and it is light years better than Flash 5! I couldn't get anything done in Flash 5. It was only when Flash MX came out that I was finally able to create Flash movies. > Maybe not Flash "designers", but certainly Flash developers will be > building > these things. To build workable, useful Flash interfaces, you need to > know > Flash, which is significantly different from ColdFusion. Yes, and dare I say much more demanding than ColdFusion. You really need to understand OO principles pretty well to be a decent Flash developer. And understanding such principles allows you to use CFMX much more effectively too, IMO, because you can see how to fully take advantage of CFCs. > Finally, I think it's a bit off the mark to compare Dreamweaver and > FrontPage. FrontPage is certainly not intended for developers; > Dreamweaver > is. And, perhaps more to the point, FrontPage tends to lock you into Internet Explorer whereas Dreamweaver lets you build cross-platform, standards-compliant websites (and helps you do so). > As I use it more and > more, I keep finding new useful features in it, and am becoming more > satisfied with it myself. For a short while I switched from DWMX (6.0) to jEdit for CF development. Once the 6.1 update came out, I switched back and haven't used jEdit since. I consider myself a pretty demanding software engineer and, whilst DWMX isn't perfect, I find it to be a very good development tool for CF (and PHP!). Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
