Razvan Surdu Personal Blog

17Aug/090

From php to flex

Being myself a developer that started with php and moved to flex I encourage all of php developers to read this article: http://corlan.org/2009/08/14/flex-for-php-developers-article/. Mihai Corlan, one of the best flex evangelists, described in great details the similarities and differences between php and flex.

Here is the table of contents:

  1. What is Flex?
    1. Flex: two languages, one framework to bind them
    2. Why you should care about Flex
    3. From thin client to smart/rich client
  2. Introduction to the MXML language
    1. Mixing MXML with ActionScript 3
    2. CSS styles
    3. Modifying MXML code at runtime
  3. Introduction to the ActionScript 3 language
    1. Separating statements
    2. Data types, variables, constants
    3. Functions and Anonymous functions (closures)
    4. OOP: classes and interfaces
    5. Variable scope
    6. Arrays
    7. Namespaces
    8. Working with XML
    9. Dynamic ActionScript
  4. Flex is asynchronous
  5. Data binding, metadata tags, and reflection
  6. Where are my data, bring it on!
  7. User authentication in Flex and PHP projects
  8. Working on Flex and PHP projects
    1. Flex SDK
    2. Flex Builder / Flash Builder
    3. Debugging Flex applications
  9. What is Adobe AIR?
  10. What’s next?
  11. Where to go from here
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