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introducing the amfserver, a zend based drupal 7 module

After the release of Drupal 7 last januari there has been a lot of work done on integrating Drupal 7 with flash, flex and air.

We released the amfserver module about a month ago which is a drupal 7 module which allows you to integrate all your actionscript clients via the amf protocol to drupal.

The DrupalProxy classes from our opensource actionscript 3 library have also been upgraded and they now work with both Drupal 6 (amfphp module) and Drupal 7 (amfserver module) even though the underlying implementation has changed.

For you as a programmer, nothing will change and you can use the DrupalProxy as you would have done in D6.

We’ve added some pretty exciting features, like the zend framework as the underlying amf engine. Classmapping is implemented and configurable. It also works for standalone flash clients; you can login and keep your session via low level amfheaders if cookies are not enabled.

It makes use of the services 3.0 module and has much more configuration options than previous amf based integrations.
There’s a lot of information on the amfserver page on drupal.org, so check it out! There is info on how to use it, how to install it and demo code is included in the module itself.

Another step forward for integrating our favorite content management system with actionscript based clients.

cheers!

DrupalService as a bridge between flash and drupal

THIS POST IS OBSOLETE, the DrupalService has been replaced by the much more powerful DrupalProxy.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.
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