Slides for my may 2010 presentation at Flash in the City in NYC.

1. @wadearnold
wadearnold.com
wade.arnold@t8webware.com

2. me?
• PHP developer who became a flash’er MX
• Wrote majority of Zend Amf & lots of
AMFPHP
• Flash Builder 4 PHP data services
• Currently
• Scala: Akka STM
• Thrift: PHP
• Hadoop: HBase, HDFS, Hive

3. Every solution I've ever seen or developed in PHP feels
clunky and bulky, there is no elegance or grace. Working
with PHP is a bit like throwing a 10 pound concrete cube
from a ten story building: You'll get where you're going
fast, but it's not very elegant. ... I love PHP, and it's the right
tool for some jobs. It's just an ugly, cumbersome tool that
makes me cry and have nightmares. It's the new VB6 in a C
dress.
Fredrik Holmstrm

5. Digg, Wikipedia, Facebook, Stumble Upon, Flicker, Tagged,
Vimeo, iStockPhoto, FeedBurner, TechCrunch,YouTube*
Written in PHP
Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla
Written in PHP

6. Some of the largest sites on the internet -- sites you
probably interact with on a daily basis -- are written in
PHP. If PHP sucks so profoundly, why is it powering so
much of the internet?
The only conclusion I can draw is that building a
compelling application is far more important
than choice of language. While PHP wouldn't be my
choice, and if pressed, I might argue that it should never be
the choice for any rational human being sitting in front of a
computer, I can't argue with the results.
Jeff Atwood
Coding Horror

10. sudo apt-get install zend-framework

13. Why ZF?
• Use-at-will Framework
• Coding Standards / Testing Standards
• BSD License (Enterprise Friendly)
• Well Documented
• Large Community
• Plenty to integrate!

14. Why us Zend_Amf?
• It handles the conversion of data types between
ActionScript and PHP
• Converts complex objects and supports class
mapping
• Access Control, Authentication, ORM, Logging,
PHP controllers, another SOA endpoint.

15. Zend_Amf works?
• It’s a basic RPC model
• SOAP, XML-RPC, REST, etc
• Call & Response

16. 1 1/2 year’s.....
• Zend Amf Beta was released Oct ‘08
• 226 bugs fixed w/ test cases
• 8 Features added
• 84 outstanding features / bugs
• 89% code coverage 100% method
• 14 SVN committers
• 3 Major refactors

17. Omar Gonzalez @s9tpepper

19. Files: Root
app/
lib/
log/
pub/
tmp/

20. Files: lib/
Zend/
Acl.php
ACL/
Auth/
Amf/
....etc.....

21. Files: pub/
css/
img/
js/
swf/
main.swf
xml/
crossdomain.xml
gateway-config.xml
.htaccess
index.php

22. Files: pub/.htaccess
1.RewriteEngine on
2.RewriteEngine ^(crossdomain.xml)$ pub/xml/crossdomain.xml
3.RewriteEngine ^(gateway-config.xml)$ pub/xml/gateway-
config.xml
4.RewriteEngine ^.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|xml|swf)$ index.php
5.
6.php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
7.php_flag register_globals off
8.php_flag display_errors on
9.
10.php_value session.auto_start 0

23. Files: pub/index.php
1.require_once './app/models/HelloWorld.php';
2./** Bootstrap */
3.
4.// Instantiate server
5.$server = new Zend_Amf_Server();
6.$server->setProduction(false);
7.Zend_Session::start();
8.$server->setSession();
9.
10.$server->addDirectory(dirname(__FILE__) .'/app/models/');
11.
12.// Add class to be reflected
13.$server->setClass('HelloWorld');
14.$server->setClass('contact.ContactDAO');
15.$server->setClass('contact.events.ContactDispatch');
16.$server->setClassMap('ContactVo',"Contact");
17.
18.// Handle request
19.$request = $server->handle();
20.echo($request);

24. Hybrid site
1.<?php
2.class GatewayController extends Zend_Controller_Action
3.{
4. public function indexAction()
5. {
6. $this->getHelper('ViewRenderer')->setNoRender();
7. $server = new Zend_Amf_Server();
8. $server->addDirectory( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../
services/' );
9. echo($server->handle());
10. }
11.}

30. Model
package com.t8.census.vo <?php
{ class Person
[Bindable] {
[RemoteClass(alias="Person")] public $id = 0;
public class PersonVO public $age = "";
{ public $classofworker = "";
public var id:int = 0; public $education = "";
public var age:int; public $maritalstatus = "";
public var classofworker:String; public $race = "";
public var education:String; public $sex = "";
public var maritalstatus:String; }
public var race:String;
public var sex:String;
}
}

31. SQL
1.CREATE TABLE `census` (
2. `age` varchar(3) DEFAULT NULL,
3. `classofworker` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
4. `education` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
5. `maritalstatus` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
6. `race` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
7. `sex` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,
8. `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
9. PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
10.) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf-8

32. Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
1.class Model_DbTable_Census extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
2.{
3. protected $_rowClass = 'Model_Census';
4. protected $_name = 'census';
5.}
1.class Model_DbTable_Census extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract
2.{
3. protected $_rowClass = 'Model_Census';
4. protected $_name = 'census';
5.}

33. Active Record
1.class CensusService {
2. public function getAllCensus() {
3. $tbl = new Model_DbTable_Census();
4. return $tbl->fetchAll()->toArray();
5. }
6.
7. public function getCensusByID( $itemID ) {
8. $tbl = new Model_DbTable_Census();
9. return $tbl->find($itemID)->current();
10. }
11.
12. public function createCensus( $item ) {
13. $tbl = new Model_DbTable_Census();
14. $row = $tbl->fetchNew();
15. $row->setFromArray((array)$item);
16. $row->save();
17. return $row->id;
18. }
19.}

34. Object-relational mapping
Working with Doctrine, Zend Framework, and Flex
Mihai Corlan

35. DB Resource Plugin
• Mysqli Result
• Mysql Result
public function getArrayCollection() {
$this -> connect();
$sql = "SELECT * FROM census " .
"LIMIT 100";
$result = mysql_query( $sql ) or die( "Query failed: " .
mysql_error() );
return $result;
}

36. DUDE IT’s PHP
1. public function getAllItems() {
2. $this -> connect();
3. $sql = "SELECT * FROM census";
4. $result = mysql_query( $sql ) or die( "Query failed: " .
5. mysql_error() );
6.
7. $census = array();
8.
9. while( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc( $result ) ) {
10. $person = new Person();
11. $person -> id = $row["id"];
12. $person -> age = $row["age"];
13. $person -> classofworker = $row["classofworker"];
14. $person -> education = $row["education"];
15. $person -> maritalstatus = $row["maritalstatus"];
16. $person -> race = $row["race"];
17. $person -> sex = $row["sex"];
18.
19. array_push( $census, $person );
20. }
21. return $census;
22. }

37. Simple Rest
spl_autoload_register(); // don't load our classes unless we use
them
$mode = 'debug'; // 'debug' or 'production'
$server = new RestServer($mode);
// $server->refreshCache(); // uncomment momentarily to clear
the cache if classes change in production mode
$server->addClass('TestController');
$server->addClass('ProductsController', '/products'); // adds
this as a base to all the URLs in this class
$server->handle();

38. Authentication
public function ServiceDelegateAmf(responder:IResponder):void {
this.responder = responder;
this.service =
ServiceLocator.getInstance().getRemoteObject("zendamf");
this.service.setCredentials("wade", "arnold");
}

39. Create Auth Adapter
class RemoteUser extends Zend_Amf_Auth_Abstract
{
public function __construct($name, $role)
{
$this->_name = $name;
$this->_role = $role;
}
public function authenticate()
{
$id = new stdClass();
$id->role = $this->_role;
$id->name = $this->_name;
return new Zend_Auth_Result(Zend_Auth_Result::SUCCESS,
$id);
}
}

40. bootstrap
$this->_server = new Zend_Amf_Server();
$this->_acl = new Zend_Acl();
$this->_server->setAuth(new RemoteUser("wade", "testrole"));
$this->_acl->addRole(new Zend_Acl_Role("testrole"));
$this->_acl->allow("testrole", null, null);
$this->_server->setAcl($this->_acl);

41. Basic Service
class demo {
function hello() {
return "hello!";
}
function hello2() {
return "hello2!";
}
function initAcl(Zend_Acl $acl) {
$acl->allow("testrole", null, "hello");
$acl->allow("testrole2", null, "hello2");
return true;
}
}

42. More Auth & ACL!
• Open ID
• Ldap
• Database
• Conditional rules
• OAuth

43. What’s Next?
• Better Class Loader, AMF0 complete
• Documentation
• Adobe Evangalist, Adobe TV, DZone
• HTTP Long Pulling
• Speed
• cache reflection
• AMFEXT

44. Help?
Issue tracker
Mailing list
Documentation

45. twitter.com/wadearnold
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wade.arnold@t8webware.com