Re: [flexcoders] Re: amfphp + codeigniter
You have a few options here. The first is to call flickr directly
through XML-RPC using Flex. You could use plain old E4X for that, or you
could use a wrapper library for it. Try it here:
http://www.hrum.org/people/debedb/pro/blog/2006/12/xmlrpc_in_flex_2actionscript_3_1.html
As Renaun mentioned, you could also use REST services for Flickr, they
work just as well. If I have a choice between REST and RPC, generally
I'll choose RPC, but I don't know how good the library I just linked
actually is.
The third option is to use a middle man, such as amfphp. In that case
you could use the XML-RPC functions built into PHP, and just have amfphp
resolve them. For example:
?php
class FlickrService
{
function doCall($function, $args)
{
//For example, $function = flickr.photos.getRecent
$apiKey = YourAPIKey;
array_unshift($args, $apiKey);
|
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request($function, $args);
$context = stream_context_create(array('http' = array(
'method' = POST,
'header' = Content-Type: text/xml,
'content' = $request
)));
$file = file_get_contents(|http://api.flickr.com/services/xmlrpc/|,
false, $context);
$response = xmlrpc_decode($file);
return $response;
|}
}
?
Then just use ro.doCall(flickr.photos.getRecent, []);, where ro is
your RemoteObject instance. That might be slower than a direct call but
then again, you don't have to store the API ky on the client (a bad idea).
Patrick
joshuagatcke a écrit :
I seen that flickr has rest web services, I am really just trying to
use xmlRPC from flex with
PHP. This does not seem that possible. I thought I could close the gap
with AMFPHP, but that
would be a realy pain. I might as well just trunk through the XML. I
am thoroughly
disappointed with the flex + PHP combination. I wish I had know more
about the limitations
of flex before I purchased flex builder.
[flexcoders] Re: amfphp + codeigniter
Thanks for the tips :) As for the xmlrpc as 3 library link you posted, I had found this before and was unable to get this to work at all. Has anyone found a simple, reliable way to do xmlrpc calls directly from within flex? That would be the ultimate solution for our project. - joshua
[flexcoders] Re: amfphp + codeigniter
I seen that flickr has rest web services, I am really just trying to use xmlRPC from flex with PHP. This does not seem that possible. I thought I could close the gap with AMFPHP, but that would be a realy pain. I might as well just trunk through the XML. I am thoroughly disappointed with the flex + PHP combination. I wish I had know more about the limitations of flex before I purchased flex builder.
[flexcoders] Re: amfphp + codeigniter
In regards to the Flickr question. You can go Flex straight to Flickr. I did a quick mashup a while back, its up on the flex cookbook site. You can find it here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetailspostId=1441productId=2 Renaun --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, joshua gatcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ever created a Flex + PHP project using AMFPHP + Codeigniter? I have been trying to integrate the two with no luck. Or maybe I shouldn't integrate the two, the question then becomes: does anyone know how to consume webservices from external sources with amfphp? what I mean is, right now, with amfphp I have to point my remoteobject tag to amfphp/gateway.php sending the method I want to use etc. What if I wanted to use the remote object tag to access flickr? would I have to call the flickr webservice from an amfphp service and return the results to flex with amfphp, or is there a way to go from flex - flickr using amfphp? If the latter is possible, then I can just create xml-rpc web services in CI and serve them to flex. I am trying to create a flex application that people can download and install on their servers / host. That is why we are using PHP. I find it incredibly limiting to use mx:httpservices with rest style data exchange for my entire application, that is why I am trying to use amfphp. Do a lot of you guys use flex + php? if so, what sort of development approach do you take? THanks in advance for any help suggestions.
