Problem solved! It was annoyingly easy to solve this :-)
My ActionScript class (Person) was stored in a folder called "Users", and the PHP class (Person) was stored in a folder called "test". The conclusion; use the same directory structure for both PHP and ActionScript classes. -- Thomas Viktil --- In [email protected], Thomas Viktil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > I've followed the tutorial from How To Forge > (http://howtoforge.com/amfphp_adobe_flex2_sdk) on how to use amfphp 1.9 > and Flex 2. Everything seems to work fine, except one little thing. > > Flex keeps giving me this error message: > TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to Users.Person. > > Here's what I've done: > > Made a package called Users, with a class called Person. And this is > what it looks like: > > package Users > { > import flash.net.registerClassAlias; > [RemoteClass(alias="test.Person")] > > [Bindable] > public class Person > { > public var firstName:String; > public var lastName:String; > public var phone:String; > public var email:String; > } > } > > In my MXML file, I have an event handler which is supposed to take the > result from the Amfphp-class, turn it into an instance of the Person > class (correct?), and then populate the DataGrid. > > My event handler: > private function changeHandler(event:Event):void { > selectedPerson = Person(DataGrid(event.target).selectedItem); > } > > selectedPerson is defined like this: > [Bindable] > private var selectedPerson:Person = new Person(); > > The PHP-class: > > <?php > > class Person { > var $firstName; > var $lastName; > var $phone; > var $email; > // explicit actionscript package > var $_explicitType = "Users.Person"; > } > > ?> > > > Obviously, Flex tries to convert an Object into Users.Person, but fails. > Does anyone have any ideas on what went wrong? > > I found a tutorial on Adobe's website which does the same thing, but > with SabreAMF. The code looks pretty much the same except that the > tutorial uses PHP5, and I'm on PHP4 (because of my webhost). But that > tutorial didn't make me any smarter... > > > > Best regards, > Thomas Viktil >
