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Working with Flex and PHP in Eclipse

Developers who work with Flex and PHP can boost their productivity by combining two tools: Flex Builder and Zend Studio for Eclipse. This setup lets you create a combined project with Flex and PHP natures and reap the benefit of coding in both languages. (In Eclipse, natures link a project with specific builders and other settings.) The setup also enables you to debug your Flex and PHP code at the same time.

In this article I will show you how to install Flex Builder 3 together with Zend Studio for Eclipse, how to create a combined project, and how to debug a project that uses Zend AMF to send data between Flex and PHP.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Flex Builder 3 Eclipse Plug-in

• Try
• Buy

Zend Studio for Eclipse

• Try
• Buy

Zend Framework 1.7 or newer

• Donwload Zend Framework

Web server with support for PHP 5 or newer

• Download PHP
• or
• Download WampServer (Apache, PHP, MySQL, Phpmyadmin on Windows)

  MySQL server 5 or newer

  • Download MySQL

Sample files:

• flex_php.zip (ZIP, 445KB)

• Note: You can import this archive using Import > Flex Builder > Flex Project.

Prerequisite knowledge

To benefit most from this article, it is best if you are familiar with Flex Builder, ActionScript 3.0, and PHP.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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