Zend is a PHP framework.
Zend Amf permits communications between Flash and PHP without using XML.
For example, to query a DataBase by Flash we need to call a PHP script that executes the query at DB and returns an XML output.
At that point only Flash can display the data it got from DB.
We bypass XML by using Zend instead !
In this case PHP executes the query at DB and it returns the values ( i.e. an Array ) to Flash directly.
How ?
Using the NetConnection class of Actionscript 3.0 !
This tutorial will show a brief sample on how to query a DataBase with Actionscript 3.0 and Zend.
We can use both Flash CS3 or Flash CS4.
Step 1
Download Zend framework ( ZIP version 1.7.0 ).
Requirements:
- PHP 5.1.4 or more
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