- Web server (Apache is recommended).
- PHP 4 or 5 (4.4.2+).
- PHP must not be running in safe mode.
- Some SWX API methods may not work when PHP is configured with the open-basedir restriction. This only affects API methods that make remote calls themselves.
- If mod_security is enabled, SWX will not allow cross-domain data exchange. Some SWX API method calls may fail and the SWX Flickr API upload script may not work correctly. Read more about this issue here.
- As of Beta 1.1, the APIs no longer require cURL. They will use it if its available but otherwise fall back to using a socket connection.
SWX: SWF Data Format
SWX is the native data format for Adobe Flash. This blog is about all things SWX, SWX RPC, SWX PHP and the SWX APIs (Flickr, Twitter, etc.)
It should be noted that if you have PHP 5.2.2 installed, you will get errors in the service browser and when making calls to the services similar to:
(mx.rpc::Fault)#0
errorID = 0
faultCode = “Client.Error.MessageSend”
faultDetail = “Channel.Connect.Failed error NetConnection.Call.BadVersion: ”
faultString = “Send failed”
message = “faultCode:Client.Error.MessageSend faultString:’Send failed’ faultDetail:’Channel.Connect.Failed error NetConnection.Call.BadVersion: ‘”
name = “Error”
rootCause = (Object)#1
code = “NetConnection.Call.BadVersion”
To fix this you’ll need to make a minor edit to the Gateway.php file that is part of the core remoting code that SWX utilizes. More information can be found on AMFPHP’s old development blog:
http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/archives/2007/05/amfphp-fix-for-php-522-compatibility-issue/
Hi Jon,
Thanks for noting this. I will update the codebase for the next release.
I so wish PHP would stop breaking backwards compatibility in such a rampant manner.
Just a quick update: I’ve applied the fix for PHP 5.2.2 and checked in the changes. You can get the latest version from SVN.