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…
