Comments on: As my eyes glaze over… Some Community Input Please?

By: jwopitz

jwopitz — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:15:17 +0000

You know I was really excited about finding FlexCRUD. But then I had a bit of dialog with the creator and it seems to me that there will be no further development on it. I didn’t even see any documentation for it and the examples were a little hard to follow.

Let me know if you have any input or luck working with FlexCRUD.

By: Arnoud

Arnoud — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:37:59 +0000

Hi,

didn’t use it yet but seems to do the trick:

http://flexcrud.riaforge.org/

uses phpdoctrine orm which seems to become the ulimate php orm

also flexcrud uses cairngorm which is nice in my opinion

thanx for sharing your insights on this blog

Arnoud

By: jwopitz

jwopitz — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:35:38 +0000

Looking into these things further I am not too enthused about using CakePHP. CodeIgniter sounds promising. I also saw something on RIAForge called FlexCRUD but it hasn’t been updated since early 2007 and almost looks abandoned. Does anyone have any input on FlexCRUD?

Thanks,
j

By: Kelvin Luck

Kelvin Luck — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:48:15 +0000

I haven’t done any PHP in a while but when I last looked into frameworks Code Igniter (http://codeigniter.com/) was the best in terms of power vs simplicity. I think I read somewhere about a way to use amfphp easily with it – could be worth looking into…

By: Daniel Hofstetter

Daniel Hofstetter — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:11:35 +0000

Maybe CakeAMF (https://trac.cakefoundation.org/amf/) is something for you?

By: jwopitz

jwopitz — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:53:25 +0000

I think my issue is trying to get some sort of ORM framework installed. Doing the whole Flex AMFPHP part is rather straight forward, but having to man-handle all of the MySQL PHP communication is rather overwhelming and I know ORM handles this.

Do you know of any good ORM implementations with Flex and AMFPHP?

Justin

By: Renaun Erickson

Renaun Erickson — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:24:58 +0000

I know CakePHP has some integration with AMFPHP, but not sure how much integration has been done lately.

Flex/AMFPHP kind overlap with many UI/CMS/View type frameworks. You might want to look at frameworks that can help with your services layer. For this Zend Framework has many classes that can help, but AMFPHP by it self also is pretty straight forward when using classes and RemoteObject.

There is no simple answer because the pieces fit together differently when you throw out the HTML and handle everything asynchronously with Flex on the UI side. Thats not to say you can have a HTML site with Flex widgets etc… but then the architecture is different and you have different needs.