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 worry about any server coding. It supports all usual associations, local caching, indexing, Flex databinding and many other things, as well as having a nifty web interface for generating schemas and stubs.
Flextrine is planned for release on 1st September to match the release of its parent project Doctrine 2.
Check out http://code.google.com/p/flextrine2/ for more details.
Hi, Dave
your program looks very promising and interesting. lol
Recently i’m trying to test Doctrine2 with flex/PHP (some small projects). but get very frustrated with the new ArrayCollection in Doctrine2. Googled a lot without solution. finally i got here, which is very close to the background.
It looks u are very skillful with those Doctrine 2 and ArrayCollection stuff.
Don’t know if you mind i drop some questions here. :p
(I downloaded your Flextrine2, tried to get a clue for my issues. not yet, though)
Flextrine uses custom deserialization and serialization to deal with ArrayCollection (and other types); it was definitely one of the challenges
Why don’t you just use Flextrine for your projects - you’ll get all the advantages of Flex/Doctrine2 integration without having to worry about these kinds of details!
Dave
Great project !!!
Hi Dave,
You are absolutely right!!! the Flextrine works pretty awesome. In fact, i intended to have more controls of back-end service and learn some knowledge of Doctrine. (consumes a lot of times, though). So i studied again your source code, pretty neat and cool!!! so right now i could focus more on the flex side programming.
thanks a lot again for this great project.
Tim
Hi Dave,
here’s another question.
personally i prefer to design relational Database first then work on ORM. the reverse way did cause me a lot of problems and bad habit for RMDB design.
so do you have any plan to let Flextrine automatically generate Entities from existing Database schema? (as far as I know, Doctrine does have one feature like this)
Sorry, get lazy after using Flextrine
Tim
Dave
it actually works for annotation like this
$ php doctrine orm:convert-mapping –from-database annotation /path/to/entities
I use this to generate roughly entities then do some modification again.
Here is actually another question.
I read ur post “AMFPHP, PHP 5.3 and namespaces” and this post, a little bit confused. and i want change the path of client-side package path to be different from server php package.
e.g. client-side: path.to.ASClass
server-side: PHPClass (directly put under entities folder)
how could i do that?
1. set in $_explicitType = “/path/to/ASClass”;
or
2. $_explicitType = “PHPClass”; but change those ASClass code generated from Flextrine manager?
thx
Tim
in fact, my experience with ZendAMF is that, in case:
PHP:
$server->setClassMap(”ASClass”,”PHPClass”);
AS:
package path.to
class ASClass{
[RemoteClass(alias="Class")]
}
ASClass alias(client) or classmap(server) is only for object register purpose, and must be same, other things don’t matter. In client side, that’s why I could have “alias (ASClass)” different from “package name(path.to.ASClass)”. and it works.
in my guess, since Wade created both Zend AMF and AMFPHP with similar concept, the first one might be the solution. what’s ur idea in Flextrine project?
thx
Tim
I believe that as long as the $_explicitType and the [RemoteClass(alias)] match up with the PHP class, that’s all that matters for the purposes of class mapping. However, the .php file itself has to be in a folder structure (within entities) that matches the package structure.
So if $_explicitType=”org.davekeen.vo.MyClass”, MyClass.php needs to be located in entities/org/davekeen/vo/MyClass.php, and you can name the AS class whatever you fancy.
Hi Dave,
thx for quick response, i did try the one suggested. but it doesn’t work.
e.g.
$_explicitType = “vo/MyClass”;
[RemoteClass(alias="vo/MyClass")]
so the server side: entities/vo/MyClass.php
client side: model.vos.ASClass.as
(am i correct for this configuration?)
when i debug the session between client/server, the error shows in server-side:
Doctrine\Common\ClassLoader::loadClass(): Failed opening required ‘\path\xampplite\htdocs\project/entities\model\vos\ASClass.php
it seems the Flextrine tried to search based on client side package name (model.vos.ASClass.php) instead of what defined in [RemoteClass]
Tim
If it is still not working log it as an issue at http://www.flextrine.com and I’ll have a closed look when I get some time
Dave
I’ve checked again. they matched.
There is another thing i tested about is:
whenever i changed the path(folder name) of the ASClass.as, the server-side error reflex the changes.
e.g. if model/vos/ASClass.as folder structure (packagename) change to model/myvos/ASClass.as, then the error change to
“Failed opening required ‘\path\xampplite\htdocs\project/entities\model\myvos\ASClass.php”
I’ll test again tomorrow. then log the issue.
thx
tim
Hello,
Is it possible to have flextrine working on php 5.2 instead of 5.3 ? because if I upgrade my serveur, lots of websites will fall down
Thank’s for your answer