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User Login with Actionscript 3 and AMFPHP

Recently I’ve been experimenting with some components and frameworks for Flash CS4 in order to shave off some development time of a rather large application I’m building. And then I found, this later in the game, AMFPHP. Altough it’s not a framework by itself (it’s more like a Web Service), and the fact that it is now much more Flex-oriented than Flash, it can still save you plenty of time when dealing with serverside components from Flash.

One of my first attempts was to create a rather simple user login, comparing the user data from an actual MySQL database. The greatest thing about AMFPHP is that you don’t have to write anyspecific code to deal with the PHP data output format. This means no XML output, and therefore cleaner code from both ends. Continue to tutorial and sample files. Continue reading…

Storing Flash Variables into MySQL

When I first needed a simple function to store a few Flash variables into a MySQL database (through PHP), I actually had to search more than I wanted to. So in order to save myself some future trouble (and time), I created a very simple AS3 class capable of receiving variables and passing them to a server-side PHP. Continue reading…

TrafegoPT, portuguese traffic APP

TráfegoPT is an AIR application I quickly made for myself, but why not share it with others, I thought. So here it is, first hand! This standalone application consists of a small virtual device which gives real-time information about traffic congestions in portuguese roads (yes, it’s only useful for portuguese drivers, I’m sorry). Continue reading…

Dave Hill, HDR photography

What better personality in the world of photography to begin my very-first-post-of-this-not-so-new-blog, than Dave Hill, considered by many the king of HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. In this post I pay a little respect to his work, show you how to closely follow Dave and give you a hint of what HDR is.

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