Adobe Developer Source Publishes a Tutorial on PHP, Flex and MySQL.

Ok, I stole this from Mike Potter’s blog from a day or so ago. (Thanks Mike!) Adobe Developer Source has published a cool tutorial by Allison McHenry titled Using PHP and Flex to Browse a MySQL Database. Click the magic more link to get the full details.

Flex is getting a lot of press these days. A lot of people are buzzing about how well it works with PHP. Mike has posted several articles on using Flex with PHP and this one is by far my favorite. Allison McHenry walk you through building a simple but useful database query tool. It only supports a subset of the features that phpMyAdmin supports so it’s not a replacement. The goal is to show developers, in a paradigm they understand, how Flex, PHP and through PHP, MySQL can work together to build a rich user interfaces.

PhpMyAdmin is a powerful, open source, graphical user interface to MySQL, the most popular freely available database application. This article explores how to replicate some of the phpMyAdmin functionality, using a combination of PHP and Flex to create an even more elegant application for browsing a database.

This is not a short or simple read. If you are going to actually do the tutorial instead of just skimming it like me then set aside a good block of time. This is a long one and it’s packed full of sample code. Unlike some tutorials I’ve read recently, Allison doesn’t skip on the “Why”. Once you get into the meat of what she’s talking about she’s very verbose in her explanations of what you are supposed to do and why you do it that way.

So forget mowing the yard this weekend, send the wife and kids to the movies and kick back with a good tutorial. (What, doesn’t everybody code for fun?)

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