Jonnie Spratley On Flex

I put together this little walk through for the visual learners out there. We do the whole process of setting up AMFPHP to creating our server side objects and services. It is a really good thing to watch to get up to speed with Flash Remoting.

We create a application called Flex Contacts, a desktop based contact manager built with Adobe Flex.

There is two parts of this tutorial, part 1 which is the server side and part 2 which covers the client side bringing together another CRUD Flex application using AMFPHP and Flex.

Before you watch the videos here is the source files for both, and make sure you use this SQL before getting started.

   1: CREATE TABLE `contacts` (

   2:   `contact_id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,

   3:   `contact_fname` varchar(200) NOT NULL,

   4:   `contact_lname` varchar(200) NOT NULL,

   5:   `contact_email` varchar(200) NOT NULL,

   6:   `contact_url` varchar(200) NOT NULL,

   7:   PRIMARY KEY  (`contact_id`)

   8: ) TYPE=InnoDB  AUTO_INCREMENT=6 ;

Here is the video link and source files for Part 1 (server side)

Here is the video link and source files for Part 2 (client side)

Here is a working example of what we are going to create.

Here is a very good example of connecting to your WordPress powered blog via XML-RPC and with Adobe Air.

Requirements

• Adobe Air Runtime
• Adobe Flex Builder
• AS3 RPC library

Here is the link for the screencast.

Here is a really quick fun thing I tried. I took Amfphp, Twitter and the Cairngorm and created an application.

My hand started to cramp and I got really off target at the end.

Check out the video here