Using Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR with PHP and Zend Framework

Oct 14 2008 - 6:30pm
Oct 14 2008 - 8:00pm
Etc/GMT-8
Meeting Topic: 
Adobe Flex, AIR, PHP and Zend Framwork
Location: 

Meeting place will be CubeSpace [SE Grand & Washington]

Meeting Desc: 

Rich Internet applications (RIAs) are everywhere. With Web businesses like Google and Yahoo! and brick and mortar companies like Harley Davidson and Sherwin Williams embracing RIAs for their online presence, the media buzz is giving way to the reality of a better Internet.

Adobe has recently contributed AMF support to the Zend Framework, allowing PHP developers to easily build Rich Internet Applications using Flex and Adobe AIR that interact with a PHP backend.

Ryan Stewart, a technical evangelist with Adobe, will give an introduction to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR, and will walk through how to create a Flex application powered by PHP and the Zend Framework. Working with Zend Studio for Eclipse, and Flex Builder (an Eclipse plugin), Ryan will demonstrate how to build, debug and deploy applications built with Adobe Flex, and how to have these same applications run on the desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime.

With this knowledge, developers will be able to easily build rich Internet applications that combine data from PHP and rich media like audio and video into a compelling application.

Ryan’s bio can be found online at http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?page_id=2

Does the group ever meet on other evenings?

I don't have Tuesday nights off and would be interested in going to meetings on other evenings. I am very new to PHP and looking to learn.

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