Introduction Setting up the server Creating the entities Creating the database schema Loading the entities Creating new entities Deleting entities Updating entities Conclusion
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As we approach the official release date I have made available another version of Flextrine. This release adds no new functionality but upgrades various elements of the codebase to be compatible with the trunk of Doctrine 2. If you are running against 2.0.0BETA2 this upgrade will have no effect, but if you are running against [...]
Flextrine 0.5.1 has been released. The main thing that has been added is proper support for type mapping and Flextrine now supports all column types, including ‘date’ and ‘datetime’. It also has some bug fixes.
You can pick it up at www.flextrine.com
Annoyingly the NaN (not a number) value of Number objects in AS3 is often quite hard to translate into a server-side equivalent and ends up breaking AMFPHP, and apparently BlazeDS too.
Here is a simple modification that will make AMFPHP turn NaN into a PHP null value on de-serialization. Unfortunately on the return journey – trying [...]
My open source ORM project Flextrine has been chosen as one of 20 projects to present at this years Flash on the Beach, in Brighton this September. I get three hectic minutes to showcase Flextrine and try and demonstrate what it can do
If you find yourself at Flash on the Beach this year [...]
I have released the first public version of Flextrine. Its actually pretty feature rich, and I will be focusing mainly on bug fixes and stability as reports start to come back from the community leading up to the main release on 1st September.
Major features that have made it into 0.5:
Entities and the entity manager
Single and [...]
Last night I was working on a project which involved me having to display large amounts of data in a Flex list. However, this data needed to be transformed before being displayed. Let me explain with a simplified example.
The problem
Suppose we need to display a huge list of Result objects, where a Result object contains [...]
I am most proud to announce the development and upcoming release of Flextrine – an open source project I am developing that simplifies and encapsulates ORM with Flex and PHP. Very simply, Flextrine maps AS3 objects to database tables giving you the ability to save and load objects to a remote database without having to [...]
There have been some nasty fights recently between Apple and Adobe regarding allowing the Flash Player to run on mobile Apple platforms, which is starting to descend into massive criticism of the Flash platform itself. I guess its obvious which side of the debate I am going to be on and here is some of [...]
Adobe have just released the first version of Catalyst, a great addition to the Adobe suite which addresses the long-standing annoyances of skinning Flex applications. Basically Catalyst allows you to take a PSD or AI file, chop it up into Flex components, optionally add some interactions and then export the whole shebang info Flash Builder [...]