July 09th 2010 - Entry Posted to: AMFPHP, Zend AMF

Small update to FlashPress.

I’ve added in the ability to get a posts ‘Featured Image’, which was introduced in Wordpress 2.9.

At the moment it simply returns the thumbnail size. If there is any desire for the feature, I can add in the ability to get other sizes?

Source Files
Flash Press 0.7 (102)

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June 23rd 2010 - Entry Posted to: AMFPHP, ActionScript 3, Zend AMF

OK, I finally had some time to tidy this up a little.

So, here it is, FlashPress 0.6.

Supports both ZendAMF and AMFPHP. Supports Wordpress 3.0.

This version of FlashPress uses the Wordpress API rather than directly working on the wordpress database. It also includes write support for some methods. This is experimental and you should test this fully before deploying it. There is also an experimental search method, that will probably change internally as I get my head around the SQL required.

This is a beta, so let me know how you get on with it, and post any bugs etc so I can look into them.

The example file is minimal, with just a listing of the various method calls and their parameters. As I get time (unlikely) I’ll add to the examples. I’ll add the method lists to this post as I get some more time.

Note: I’ve tested this release against Wordpress 3.0, and it seems to be working fine. Let me know if you enounter any issues.

Source Files
Flash Press 0.6 (173)

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February 26th 2009 - Entry Posted to: AMFPHP, ActionScript 3, Zend AMF

For a project I have in development I needed to once again create or connect to a CMS.

I’ve previously rolled my own CMS using AMFPHP, which works fine. However, I thought I’d give using Wordpress a go as a CMS system for Flash sites, with an AMFPHP connection between Flash and the wordpress database.

I stumbled on Amfphp WordPress Integration (AWI) which seemed to offer what I was after. However, it has not been updated for a long time, and supports wordpress 2.3 or so and below. The project I have on needs to take advantage of wordpress’s tagging and categorising of content, which was the main element missing from the awi project. So, I re wrote it, and added in many more methods and dropped many of the existing ones.

You can view an example of it at work here: http://www.noponies.com/dev/cloud/ Which is using a hacked version of the WP-Cumulus Wordpress plugin, from here: http://www.roytanck.com/tag-cloud/. Instead of using a PHP method to create XML, I’m just using AMFPHP to call a getTagCloud method, and using the data in a similar fashion to how the WP-Cumulus Flash file works. Clicking on either a category (white text) or a tag (grey text) calls another method that pulls the various posts that are filed under that particular category or tag. Pretty simple stuff.

Ironically after embarking on this little project, I found a few other similar ones, this one (Flexpress) here by Jonnie Spratley which can be found here http://jonniespratley.com/blueprints/ and this swc library FlexDb from here: http://ghalex.com/blog/?p=53. Always annoying to re invent the wheel.

I’ve called my project, FlashPress, which is who I intended it to target (Flash devs) or people like me.

As of version 0.2 this also works fine with Zend AMF, and I’ll update the source file with some demos of connecting using Zend AMF.

Anyway, enough rambling, you can download the latest version (0.6) here;

Source Files Version 0.6
Flash Press 0.6 (173)

Let me know if there are bugs etc. I’m not really a PHP guy, nor a MYSQL guy, so I’m definitely interested in hearing about ways to improve things.

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