p. Flash-db.com has released a quick and easy tutorial on using Flash Remoting and PHP via amfphp titled An Introduction to Flash Remoting. It’s a quick and easy read and if you are running OSX, the screenshots will make sense to you.

Overall, this a very easy to understand tutorial that walks you though building a “Hello World” application. It doesn’t get hung up in contrived demos but instead concentrates on the “how to”. It even walks you thought the details of getting PHP installed on your OSX.

Here’s the opening paragraph to give you a flavor of this 4 page tutorial.

Flash Remoting allows flash movies to call remote server side applications, passing parameters and receiving requests, without knowledge of the server side. The calls are usually named Remote Procedural Calls (RPCs), and transfer serialized, type-persistent objects directly between the server and a Flash MX client. Developers on both sides (flash and server) collaborate on ways of calling methods in order to build the system. With AMF (Action Message Format) the exchange of information is faster and allows you to pass objects (not only name/value pairs) between Flash and the server in binary format. This allows you to easily develop complex applications that rely on an efficient way of sending and receiving data.

Nobody is claiming that you will be able to write your own complex applications after working through this tutorial. It will, however, get you up, running and into the concepts. When you are done, you should have a grounding in the techniques necessary to use amfphp and be ready to move on to more complex examples.