Flextrine 0.5.1 has been released. The main thing that has been added is proper support for type mapping and Flextrine now supports all column types, including ‘date’ and ‘datetime’. It also has some bug fixes.
You can pick it up at www.flextrine.com
Annoyingly the NaN (not a number) value of Number objects in AS3 is often quite hard to translate into a server-side equivalent and ends up breaking AMFPHP, and apparently BlazeDS too.
Here is a simple modification that will make AMFPHP turn NaN into a PHP null value on de-serialization. Unfortunately on the return journey – trying [...]
My open source ORM project Flextrine has been chosen as one of 20 projects to present at this years Flash on the Beach, in Brighton this September. I get three hectic minutes to showcase Flextrine and try and demonstrate what it can do
If you find yourself at Flash on the Beach this year [...]
I have released the first public version of Flextrine. Its actually pretty feature rich, and I will be focusing mainly on bug fixes and stability as reports start to come back from the community leading up to the main release on 1st September.
Major features that have made it into 0.5:
Entities and the entity manager
Single and [...]
Last night I was working on a project which involved me having to display large amounts of data in a Flex list. However, this data needed to be transformed before being displayed. Let me explain with a simplified example.
The problem
Suppose we need to display a huge list of Result objects, where a Result object contains [...]
I am most proud to announce the development and upcoming release of Flextrine – an open source project I am developing that simplifies and encapsulates ORM with Flex and PHP. Very simply, Flextrine maps AS3 objects to database tables giving you the ability to save and load objects to a remote database without having to [...]
