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presentation and code of the adobe user group xl (augxl) 2010 online

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Rolf Vreijdenberger
on 18 November, 2010
in cms
. 8 Comments

Yesterday we presented a session at the adobe usergroup xl 2010 event about integrating drupal and flash via the drupal services module, the drupal content construction kit (cck) module and our opensource library with the DrupalProxy. On the accompanying website for the presentation you can find the demo, the demo source code and a download of the presentation itself, click here to get it.

We also introduced the new DrupalInvokeTask which makes it enormously easy to use all calls to core and custom service call in a sequence of tasks that execute asynchronously. Read up on how to use sequencing with our very powerful sequence package in this earlier blogpost about them.

The demo code of the presentation that you can download gives you an excellent insight in how to use sequencing and the power of it, with some tasks (including the DrupalInvokeTask) of our library.

DrupalProxy as a bridge between flash as3 and drupal via amf

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Rolf Vreijdenberger
on 27 July, 2010
in cms and dpdk
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Drupal is a multiple award winning opensource content management system. With the drupal services module, it’s possible to consume data from drupal in flash. Drupal is a very powerful tool to provide data to flash movies and with the community investing much time in drupal services, now is a great time to be using drupal to power your flash websites. Services will be part of the drupal 7 core release.

We decided to UPGRADE our nl.dpdk.services.gephyr package, which is a drupal as3 service which acts as a bridge between drupal and flash. It has all the functionality of the drupal services built in, including the ability to connect to existing core services and any custom service implemented, out of the box. There is no need to extend it or customize it. Furthermore, it makes use of all drupals’ security mechanisms via key and session based authentication.
It has more features and packs more power than any other opensource actionscript 3 based drupal package out there at the moment, inluding our now obsolete DrupalService, so be sure to check it out from svn and start using it today.

It has a well thought out and consistent api, very tight and tested code, is easy to use, and features the ability to use the security mechanisms that are used for the drupal services backend module.

We feel that this is the implementation that ends it all and provides no more need for any other package for communicating from as3 to a drupal backend via amf and the services module. If you do however need to alter or add code, you can either subclass the class and implement some of the protected hook methods we have put there just for that purpose, OR, you can write an adapter for it. As stated before, that should not be necessary.

The architecture of the nl.dpdk.services.gephyr.DrupalProxy class is based upon using our drupal code extensively in commercial projects and from user feedback from the drupal community. It is based on the proxy design pattern as a remote proxy to the drupal services module.
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DrupalService as a bridge between flash and drupal

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Rolf Vreijdenberger
on 9 August, 2009
in actionscript3, cms, dpdk and opensource
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THIS POST IS OBSOLETE, the DrupalService has been replaced by the much more powerful DrupalProxy. You can read about it here: DrupalProxy as a bridge between flash as3 and drupal via amf.

Drupal is a multiple award winning opensource content management system. With the drupal services module, it’s possible to consume data from drupal in flash. Drupal is a very powerful tool to provide data to flash movies and with the community investing much time in drupal services, now is a great time to be using drupal to power your flash websites. Services will be part of the drupal 7 core release.

We decided to release our nl.dpdk.services.gephyr package, which is a drupal as3 service which acts as a bridge between drupal and flash and features all the power of our as3 flash remoting package. It has the core functionality of the drupal services built in and is very easy to extend and to adjust to your needs. Furthermore, it makes use of all drupals’ security mechanisms via key and session based authentication.
It has more features and packs more power than any other opensource actionscript 3 based drupal package out there at the moment, so be sure to check it out.
Continue reading ‘DrupalService as a bridge between flash and drupal’