Archive for February, 2010

Accessing services-config.xml values from Flex at runtime

Feb 11th

Posted by Danny Kopping in ActionScript 3.0

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Recently I found this magic class in the Flex 3 SDK called ServerConfig. This class is great… What it allows you to do is access values that you defined in your services-config.xml file used to define the communication channels between Flex and your server.

Take the following services-config.xml file for example:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<services-config>
	<services>
		<service id="amfphp-flashremoting-service" class="flex.messaging.services.RemotingService"
				messageTypes="flex.messaging.messages.RemotingMessage">
			<destination id="amfphp">
				<channels>
					<channel ref="my-amfphp"/>
				</channels>
				<properties>
					<source>*</source>
				</properties>
			</destination>
		</service>
	</services>
	<channels>
		<channel-definition id="my-amfphp" class="mx.messaging.channels.AMFChannel">
			<endpoint uri="gateway.php" class="flex.messaging.endpoints.AMFEndpoint"/>
		</channel-definition>
	</channels>
</services-config>

As you can see, we’re setting the endpoint for our my-amfphp channel to gateway.php. What if you wanted to read that value into your Flex application? You could use the following code:

trace(ServerConfig.getChannel("my-amfphp").endpoint);

Check out the ServerConfig for more information!

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AMFPHP is back!

Feb 2nd

Posted by Danny Kopping in ActionScript 3.0

19 comments

Today is a wonderful day!

I have teamed up with Ariel Sommeria-klein to revive the legendary AMFPHP project that spawned a whole new dimension of Rich Internet Applications. Together we have brought AMFPHP 1.9 out of beta and made it compatible with PHP 5.3. We have also completely rewritten the AMFPHP service browser and we have several improvements planned for AMFPHP 2.0.

If you would like to help contribute to this great open-source application, please contact us.

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