Comments on: Killer Combination: AMFPHP, Propel and Creole

By: senlab

senlab — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:05:01 +0000

i am very interested in hearing a full on article of how you do all this. hope you fill us all in on your magic making. :P

By: Glen

Glen — Sun, 14 May 2006 20:06:01 +0000

Hi,

I have managed to use AMFPHP with Pear’s DB abstraction layer and also the Pear DB_DataObject class. This latter thing is really nice because once you figure out how to use it, you can build your DB in MySQL, etc. then run a helper class supplied with DB_DataObject to automatically generate your DAO classes. Not only do you get the abstraction, you get automatic building. You can also specify table joining, etc. in a config file. This last bit is slightly tricky, but the tutorials are quite good.
The final cherry on the cake for me was the fact that you can pass Pear DB recordsets back to Flash from AMF PHP.
I will check out the Propel / Creole combo to see how it compares, but I would recommend having a look at Pear, unless you are already way ahead on Cake, because the DB_DataObject_FormBuilder class is the icing that lets you do some rapid development with forms in just a few lines of code.

By: felix

felix — Fri, 05 May 2006 09:56:14 +0000

hi marcelo,

cakephp is also very interesting and i think i’ll use it on one of the next projects…

By: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:46:22 +0000

Hello! Interesting post. IÂ´m currently using CakePHP together with AMFPHP through the CakeAMFPHP adapter package. CakePHP is very similar in concept to Ruby on Rails and really boost the productivity, IÂ´m really satisfied with it as I can have one knowledge base (business logic on the server) for both HTML and the Flash App.

Chek it out! http://www.cakephp.org

Marcelo.

By: Riccardo Bartoli

Riccardo Bartoli — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:59:59 +0000

Hi, could I use propel and creole without have access to the server?

I can only access my hosting folder and phpMyAdmin.

Thanks

By: felix

felix — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:12:12 +0000

@judah: if you add or delete fields in the database, you have to regenerate the classes but that’s as easy as executing the phing code generator. everything you customized in the subclasses will NOT be overriden.

Yes, each table is represented by a corresponding php class and a customizable subclass. There’s are a few more classes which contain the main functionality and are extended by the other classes. So if you need to alter a certain table you just include the class you need (and the core class).

There’s also a php 4 version of propel that isn’t maintained anymore. So you would have to use it at your own risk…

By: Nek

Nek — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:53:33 +0000

I’ll be waiting for your article! It’s an interesting topic.

By: Kuan

Kuan — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:53:04 +0000

Hey that does sound pretty killer. I developed an app last year with amfphp and a MSSQL db and all the sql writing just about killed me!

Thanks for the tip

By: judah

judah — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:37:12 +0000

What happens when you add or delete fields in your database? Does it have to regenerate your class files? Do you end up having a relational number of classes equal to your tables?

Can you still use this technique if your server is running PHP 4?

My questions can be summed up in, is there any downsides to this? :)

By: judah

judah — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:49:00 +0000

I’ve been looking for something like this. I am interested to hear more about how you are using it.