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July 20, 2006
Using PHP and Flex to Browse a MySQL Database
DevX has posted a good (though lengthy) tutorial / example on how to use Flex to browse a MySQL database, with PHP as the intermediate layer on their Adobe portal. While not as full featured as PHPMyAdmin (obviously), its a great example of the kind of interface that you could build with Flex.
I'd love to see a Flex based version of PHPMyAdmin, but apparently they've hardcoded quite a bit of the HTML output into the PHP logic. I think that if PHP really wants to move forward in the enterprise space, developers really need to start doing a better job at seperating out the display from the logic, and stop assuming that every PHP application will be outputing HTML.
For the record, quite a few PHP applications have this problem, its not limited only to PHPMyAdmin. Even Drupal, one of my favourite apps, has this problem, as I blogged about a while ago.
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FYI: The phpMyAdmin team has actually already about 2 years ago agreed that templated output is the way to go, and just a few months ago we decided that Smarty Templating is one of the top mid-term priorities of phpMyAdmin.
But as always the problems with OS: The team is lacking manpower. Which is why I am posting here. If anybody wants to help enlarge the usefullness of a great PHP application and leverage it to future usages like Flex, please join and help the team. The PMA developers are very open and welcome every helping hand. Drop by their mailing list, all of them are actively monitoring it.
Best regards,
Garvin
[part of the PMA collective ;)}
please explain how to use php with flex 2 to display and inserting data in MySql database.
Please give any example link.
thanks
surya
Dear,
I have troubles accessing the article "Using PHP and Flex to Browse a MySQL Database" (http://www.devx.com/Adobe/Article/31923).
It is re-linked to http://www.devx.com/DevX/Door/15838 and sais: "Page not found".
I used your article (the simple sample of php-flex-mySQL) to understand how to connect to a database, and it realy helped me out. Right now i'm wondering what is the article about...
- is it a broken link?
- do I do something wrong?
- is there a possibilty to find the article without going to the devx site? (pdf or something?)
best regard, Kasper
[Looks like the DevX site has been taken offline. To get the PHP connection, download the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe at http://code.google.com/p/adobe-php-sdk/ - Mike]
please explain how to use php with flex 2 to display and inserting data in MySql database.
Please give any example link.
thanks
atanu
[The best way to get started with PHP and Flex is to download the PHP RIA SDK by Adobe at http://code.google.com/p/adobe-php-sdk/ - Mike]
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