Friday, September 17, 2004

I'm not sure how many people use Ghostwire's phpObject the Flash Remoting alternative and yes I am aware that it is different in the way it works to the AMFPHP remoting option which does use the Actionscript Messaging Format hence the name, but it really is rather good!

I am currently working on a kiosk based application to run on a touch screen display. I am working with a php developer who is creating the content management system so I thought phpObject looked like a good option and seeing as it will run over a local network it should be pretty quick. I was suprised how easy it is to get up and running a simple download from Ghostwire's homepage, run the .mxp file and copy a couple of php files into your webroot and away you go! The only problem I soon encountered was how to return a complete recordset from the database as the documentation is pretty sparse, however a few minutes scanning the forums and I got my answer. Thanks to 'Strange' for the code and here is the post with my follow up post to show how to use this code without components.

Jon 9:04 AM Permalink