Introduction to Flex for PHP developers with information on how to get started, what value Flex provides, and what tools to use.

1. Getting Started with Flex and PHP

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3. Agenda What is Flex? Flex and PHP: The Why and the Workflows Advanced PHP Features with Flex Using PHP and the Flash Platform

5. Flex is Not: Basic Animations Banner Ads Simple Video Menu Bars Small Pieces of Interactivity

6. Simple Animation, Vector Graphics, Banner Ads, Progressive Video Interactive Widgets, Streaming Video, Advanced Drawing, Sound Generation, Filters/Effects Real-Time Collaboration Data Visualization, Gestures RIAs, Games HTML5 Flex Pyramid of Flash Features and Use Cases

7. Flex is Applications

8. Flex is for Developers Open Source SDK Familiar Programming Model 3rd Party Libraries and Frameworks Developer Tutorials

9. Flex is Rich, Extensible Components

10. Flex is Consistency

11. Flex is Productivity

12. Developer Tooling

13. Flash Builder Built on Eclipse Code completion, syntax highlighting Includes debugger, network monitor Build desktop or browser apps

14. Other Flex Developer Tools Visual Studio Plugin IntelliJ TextMate Bundles

15. In-Browser Applications Desktop/Mobile Apps Flex Framework Components, Data Connection APIs, Compiler, Debugger, Validators, Effects PHP Code Exposed as Services that connects calls data from external data sources XML / JSON / AMF / HTTP(S) / SOAP / Socket / RTMP Compile to SWF Package How Flex and PHP Work Together

16. <XML> Data Formats with Flex/PHP {JSON} 010000010100110101000110 (AMF)

17. Your first Flex App

18. Easily Connect to Data

19. Create PHP classes based on a database Easily connect to any exposed services Test operations and define types Generate forms based on data types Bind data to interface components Flash Builder Data Wizards

20. AMF and the Zend Framework

21. Intro to AMF A binary file format that represents a serialized ActionScript object Created as a way to exchange data with the Flash Player Allows you to map data types to Flash Player types Open Specification

22. AMF and PHP Projects AMFPHP - Great, open source, easy to use, still the standard ZendAMF - Part of the Zend Framework, most up to date WebORB PHP - Part of WebORB family, comes with code generation tools SaberAMF - Lightweight AMF implementation, similar to AMFPHP

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24. What About Design?

25. Designing Flex The ability to tweak styles with CSS Change themes that affect every component Work with a designer to skin components

26. Designer/Developer Workflow Flex’s component model separates design from logic Allows developers to take and easily integrate designer content Flash Catalyst is the UI designer for Flex applications

27. Leveraging the Designer in Flex

28. Taking Flex and PHP Further

29. Real-Time Data Over Sockets

30. Client Server Request Response Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I Going? Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I Going? Typical HTTP Call Repeat

31. Client Server Connection Push Socket Call

32. PHP Can Act as Socket Server Flex can Connect via Socket Class Provides the capability to roll your own real-time data access

33. Using PHP to Manage Collaboration

34. LiveCycle Collaboration Services Cloud-based service for collaboration Uses Flash to enable real-time data transfer Includes a PHP library for managing service

35. Management, authentication PHP and Collaboration

36. Flashndroid

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