Zend to Link its PHP Tools With Adobe Flex, Dojo

17 Years Ago EddieC 0 482 Views

Zend Technologies today is set to announce a series of alliances intended to allow its PHP framework and development environment to work with other widely deployed RIA technologies from Adobe, Dojo and IBM. In a keynote speech at ZendCon, the company's annual PHP developer conference in Cupertino, Calif., Zend CEO Harold Goldberg reportedly was to deliver the news.

The most far-reaching collaboration will be with Adobe, and is aimed at simplifying development of PHP application that combine PHP with Flex, the company's popular framework for developing rich Internet applications. I received advance copy of an embargoed document, in which it was revealed that Adobe will help Zend integrate its Zend Framework with Action Message Format (AMF), Adobe's typed language for exchanging data between a Flash application and a database. The idea will be to enable "data integration between server-side PHP and client-side Flex data and logic components," according to the document. The alliance also is intended to simplify the use of PHP with Ajax and the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Adobe's cross-platform environment for developing browserless desktop applications using Flash, Flex, HTML or Ajax techniques.

Zend also announced ties with The Dojo Foundation aimed at delivering a boxed solution for building Ajax-based Web apps using the Zend Framework and for JavaScript. Zend Framework 1.6, released earlier this month, includes integration with the toolkit.

The company also updated Zend Core i5/OS 2.6, its certified PHP stack for IBM's i5/OS for IBM's iSeries systems with improved security, simplifies access to native i5 resources and includes Zend Framework 1.6, the company said. Also available now is Zend Studio 6.1, the latest version of Zend's Eclipse-based integrated development environment for PHP, adding the new framework and Dojo support.

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Thanks to for the historical note and for the enthusiasm. For anyone reading this thread years after the original announcement: the RIA and PHP-framework landscape has changed. Browser support for Flash ended on December 31, 2020, Flex was donated to the Apache community and continues as Apache Flex, Dojo is an active OpenJS project, and Zend Framework has been continued under the Laminas Project. ()

Practical guidance for maintaining or migrating a Zend+Flex/AMF app today:

Inventory what the client uses (AMF endpoints, typed objects, sockets).
Add modern JSON/REST (or GraphQL) endpoints in parallel so new front ends can be built without breaking old clients.
If you must keep AMF for the short term, run an AMF gateway (for PHP, projects such as AMFPHP provide a temporary adapter) while you build JSON endpoints and migrate clients. (amfphp.org)

Simple server-side JSON pattern (example):

<?php
header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://example.com'); // restrict in production
// build $rows from your model or DB
echo json_encode(['status'=>'ok','data'=>$rows]);

Troubleshooting tips: enable and test CORS early, verify Content-Type and character encoding, watch for differences in typed AMF values (dates, byte arrays, integers vs floats), and protect APIs with HTTPS and token-based auth (JWT/API keys). For PHP-side framework moves, use the Laminas migration tooling and follow the Laminas migration guide to update namespaces and packages. (docs.laminas.dev)

If a rewrite isn’t possible immediately, prefer an adapter approach (AMF gateway + new JSON APIs) and schedule a phased client migration to HTML5/modern JS frameworks or desktop wrappers. For historical context or migration references, consult the Apache Flex and Laminas project resources and OpenJS documentation for Dojo. (flex.apache.org)

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16 Years Ago

wow great news, i've recently started learning zend loving it all the way!

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