September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
18h 43m
English
Content preview from Flash Remoting: The Definitive GuideBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Using AMFPHP with Web Services
If you’d like to use AMFPHP to connect to pre-existing SOAP-based web services, you don’t have to write a single line of PHP. As long as your installation of AMFPHP is set up properly, connecting to web services with it is a breeze and is nearly identical to the process you would with ColdFusion (ColdFusion is the only other Remoting gateway that automatically supports connecting to external web services). See Chapter 10 for more information about web services with ColdFusion and .NET.
Not all web services work with AMFPHP. This is a limitation of the SOAP libraries that AMFPHP uses rather than a limitation of the AMFPHP library itself. If you want to test to make sure a particular web service is accessible before you start doing heavy development against it, download the CMX Remoting Testing Tool from http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=E79F1303C1E096ED. The tool is a free extension that adds a new CMX Remoting Testing Tool panel to the Flash MX authoring environment and allows you to quickly execute remote methods and see the results.
To use a web service with AMFPHP, you first need to know the URL of that web service’s WSDL file. A WSDL file is an XML file that describes a web service, including its URL, the methods it supports, and the arguments and return types of those methods. You can, in fact, open a WSDL file in a text editor and read this information from it. Of course, you also need to know the URL of the gateway.php file up on ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.