The AMFPHP libraries used for Flash Remoting in PHP are now made available for use with Joomla! 1.5 by Anthony McLin with the name J-AMFPHP. The package comes as a component and is freely available for download at http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jamfphp/frs. From this location, you can download three files: J-AMFPHPCoreComponentv0.3.2.zip, J-AFMPHPAuthenticaionService.zip
, and J-AMFPHPExampleServicesPlugin.zip
. You can install these from the Extensions | Install/Uninstall screen of the Joomla! administration area. Once installed, you will get a folder tree, as shown in the following screenshot:
We are looking into this directory structure as it will be useful for starting the service browser.
One of the limitations of J-AMFPHP is that it lacks documentation. You cannot start using it straight after installing the component and plugins. You need some tweaking and those tweaks are really tricky to find out.