SWX: SWF Data Format

SWX PHP is a SWX RPC implementation in PHP. It is open source.

SWX PHP is written in pure PHP. It doesn't require any extensions and runs under both PHP 4 and 5. (As such, it runs without problems even on shared hosting accounts.)

SWX PHP has a SWX RPC endpoint (gateway) and an assembler that creates and returns SWX files. Your service classes contain business logic only.

SWX PHP comes with service classes (APIs) for Flickr, Twitter, Ten Word Review, Nabaztag, etc. There is a publicly accessible instance of SWX PHP running on swxformat.org at http://swxformat.org/php/swx.php. You can access these APIs from this public gateway without hosting your own instance of SWX PHP if you want to build mashups using just these APIs.

SWX PHP uses Amfphp as a library and this means that you can also hit SWX PHP services via Flash Remoting, JSON and XML-RPC. (In other words, you're not locked into using SWX RPC and you can switch easily between these various technologies if you want to.)

SWX PHP comes with a plain vanilla installer (unzip it into your web folder on the server and go) and as a MAMP Bundle (everything you need to get up and running with SWX PHP on OS X). I am planning on creating Windows and Linux bundles as well in the future. In the meanwhile, I recommend using WAMP on Windows and XAMMP on Linux is you want to quickly get up and running with a server (Apache + PHP, etc.) on your development machine.