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Creating a Custom API for Flash using Facebook API and PHP

    In the previous article we discussed how to set up the framework for PHP, FB API and Flash. We did a lot of work to make this happen. We tested the framework only with very simple methods that made calls to the FB API and databases. In this article we are going to extend the sample to implement all necessary calls to the api. We will try to find the most important and needed fb api methods and teak them for usage in Flash. All the hard work will be accompanied by a sample that will make the whole article more interesting. We will create a small photo album viewer that will let you send notifications of type "I like this" for every photo to your friends. This sample will be more interesting.

Setting Up AMFPHP for Flash and Facebook API

     Following good software engineering principles and following the goal to make flash based facebook applications easier to develop there are well known technologies to utilize. So far we have been introduced to the basics of Flash - Facebook API communication. In the second article we discussed the various methods to embed swfs into the facebook canvas. Equipped with that knowledge, we can make a good step forward. In software engineering, experts say that we should develop applications “close to the problem”.

Overview of embedding SWFs into Facebook Canvas

Following the first article where we introduced the basic usage of Flash with PHP and Facebook, we are here in the second article to discuss all about the correct embedding of swf's into the facebook canvas. There are a lot of ways of how to do that and everyone of it has its pros and cons. We will discuss this in in detail in this article. Every step will be accompanied by a sample where we will demonstrate the pros and cons.

Creating a Hello Friends App using ActionScript 3.0, PHP and Facebook API

As we all know life is much more colorful with friends, Facebook it's the best example on the internet for this case. Its even more colorful when you can use the Facebook API to create applications on that platform. Using Flash, PHP and the FB API we can utilize ActionScript OOP features to make the applications perform better then with standard FBML. I'm not trying to say here that FBML is bad, no, this series will try to teach how implement the existing knowledge of Flash into the Facebook application platform.

Processing AMF 3 PHP Server Object Arrays on the Flex Client Using Object Relational Mapping

This article expands on the notion of Adobe Flex client-to-server object mapping per my first O’Reilly Inside RIA article titled AMF3 PHP Server Objects to Flex Client Object Relational Mapping ( https://www.insideria.com/2008/04/amf3-php-server-objects-to-fle.html ). You are encouraged to master the AMF 3 messaging protocol and object relational mapping basics discussed in my first RIA article. Occasionally, in this article, I refer to this first article using the notation of “in my first RIA Object Relational Mapping article,” which means navigate to the above URL for details about the basics.

Is Dreamweaver being beaten by Drupal?

In 1997, I was at the Macromedia User's Conference to give a talk on creating "intelligent" agents within Macromedia Director. At this particular conference, Macromedia announced a new product called Dreamweaver, an HTML editing application that exercised a profound effect upon the web development community.

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