SWX PHP and SWX ActionScript Library Version 1.0 Released at SWX: SWF Data Format

SWX PHP 1.0 and SWX ActionScript Library 1.0 Release Announcement

It's my great pleasure to announce that after six months of alphas and betas, SWX PHP 1.0 and SWX ActionScript Library 1.0 are now available for download.

The major changes from SWX PHP Release Candidate 1 include a revamped Start Page with new, royalty-free icons, and a friendly new list view for the Services and Flash examples folders.

I've also updated the SWX Nabaztag API so that you can now specify the voice that you want your Nabaztag bunny to talk in and you can move its ears and send it ear and LED choreographies. You can test out and use the SWX Nabaztag API and the other SWX APIs (Flickr, Twitter, etc.) directly from the Public SWX Gateway using the SWX Service Explorer.

Finally, there's a new LOG_ALL configuration option in swx_config.php that determines whether non-error (status, info, profiling) messages are written to the PHP error log. Set this to false on deployments for better performance. The setting defaults to true as it is useful for troubleshooting during development.

Update: Based on Jon MacDonald's suggestion (thanks, Jon!), I've also created a SWX PHP Deployment Bundle to make it easier for you to deploy SWX PHP to your server. Use the regular SWX PHP and SWX PHP MAMP Bundles to develop with and then deploy the lean-and-mean deployment bundle to your server. The deployment bundle is much smaller than the regular build as it doesn't contain the source code for the Flex-based tools or the sample Flash FLA files.

The release of SWX PHP 1.0 and SWX ActionScript Library 1.0 is something I've been looking forward to for quite a while now and I hope that SWX simplifies your development life and makes it as fun for you to create Flash and Flash Lite applications and mashups as it has for me.

In the next two months, I'm going to be traveling around the world to talk about SWX at FlashForward Boston, FlashForum Conference in Germany, MAX Chicago, MAX Barcelona, FITC Hollwood, MAX Japan, and Flash on the Beach in my home town of Brighton, in the UK. In addition to this, development work continues (I just made my first post-1.0 commit to the SVN repository) and will include efforts to create a Flash 9 version of SWX PHP, as well as SWX RPC implementations for Ruby, Python, J2EE, and .Net.

In the next few days, I will be releasing Internet Drafts for SWX and SWX RPC which I hope will become Informational RFCs.

Here's to Version 1.0! This is just the beginning.

Read the full release notes for SWX PHP 1.0 and download the 1.0 release.

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1 John Navin
September 12, 2007 at 2:01 pm

Hi Aral,
Let me congratulate you on this release. Great job !!!

As a developer who has used AMFPHP extensively for creating Flash based web apps, I can tell you SWX PHP and SWX ActionScript Library make life a lot easier for RIA developers. This is so much simpler than Flash remoting.

Thanks for all your hard work. I hope SWX makes development faster for lots more people.

All the best,
John.
2 aral
September 12, 2007 at 2:49 pm

Hi John,

Thanks so much, I’m so glad to hear it! Do let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions for future versions and I hope you have fun with SWX!
3 Meekish
September 12, 2007 at 9:59 pm

Just wanted to swing by and say congrats, Aral! SWX PHP is an inspiring library! *wink, wink*
4 John Navin
September 13, 2007 at 1:10 pm

Hi Aral,
I have been playing with SWX PHP. When I connect to a database and get the result set, I get the results as-

(mx.collections::ArrayCollection)

I want to make the result set a data provider for a data grid.
How do I handle this in Flash 8? Any inputs will be welcome.

Thanks,
John.
5 aral
September 13, 2007 at 10:05 pm

Hi John,

I’m not entirely sure I understand, how are you getting back an ArrayCollection (ActionScript 3 datatype) from the database?

Also, in Flash 8, we don’t have ArrayCollections. Flash 9 is currently not supported (but will be).

Could you please elaborate on your question. Please feel free to send an email to the SWX Mailing List (or directly to me) if that’s easier.

Thanks!
6 John Navin
September 19, 2007 at 12:25 pm

Hi,
I found out how to get data from a database into Flash using SWX. The following link was really helpful-

http://www.zinkhann.co.uk/blog/2007/04/30/swx-meet-my-recordset/

Maybe this will benefit someone else too.

-John.

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