Flash and Drupal

travis tidwell - travist

built dash media player

flash integration with drupal

technology required to do cool shit with flash and drupal

how flash and drupal communicate

why flash and drupal?
- combine beauty and powerdrupalcon twitter wall

how flash and drupal communicate
- RPC Remote procedure calls
-- uses xml to call a remote function
-- amf - actionscript message format

flash is always on the client side

how drupal handles rpc
- services module - awesome! simplifies process of building server side rpc function
- amfphp module - need this for flash with drupal - doesnt do it all
- amfphp server -- amfphp.org -- download and extract into the amfphp module dir
- services admin has the rpc functions
- drupal manages flash connections using session ids - using system connect api - cant delete nodes. dont disable sessions in services module! it will be a huge security risk

flash calls system.connect -- services modules, must enable system service module
drupal returns a sesh id to flash

on the flash side

ansynchronous programming coz flash is local drupal is server side

flash is event driven

Resolution