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I am fairly sure that someone out there must already be working on this. It would be weird if somebody wasn't talking about it at least. Having just read Part 1 of the "Rich Internet Applications with Flex and PHP" by Richard Bates, (2 or three times so I understood the content) I am inspired to ask about Flex and Joomla. I mean, what Joomla Developer out there would not want to leverage a "Flash" Template view and control all the Menus, Modules, Params, etc through the current Joomla!1.5.x interface, just like we do for html documents.
But, the current Flex to PHP implementation uses a binary message format call Action Message Format (AMF), which Mr. Bates explains gives a 6 fold savings in data overhead (a AMF message is 6 times smaller then an XML message!!!). The article goes on to build a PHP Document Service using the newly created Zend_AMF (based on AMFPHP)to encode the PHP objects into messages Flex can use. Joomla!1.5 has what I consider to be a 'similar' example structure in the xmlrpc server and example client. It seems likely that the first place that a developer may start build something in Joomla!1.5 analagous to Zend_AMF, but using the currently available AMFPHP as a new library extension in Joomla!1.5 mimicking the xmlrpc server. Essentially you are just exposing your content through a service, just in AMF instead of XML. My question, to you all, is what about the scenario I mentioned above? Creating a Flash 'View' for Joomla, where you can manage all the variable configurations from the Joomla Backend and load them into the into the html template, and have the *.swf file pick them up. What do you think? |
