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Flex and PHP
Get started with Flex and PHP
- Get oriented to Flex and RIAs.
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- What is an RIA?
- What is Flex?
- Download Flex.
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- Download the free Flex SDK to build and debug Flex applications.
- Download and try Flex Builder, an Eclipse-based IDE that provides a rich set of tools to speed app creation.
- Read a primer.
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Learn about Flex and PHP from the getting started primer for Flex & PHP.
- Code your first RIA.
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- From the Flex Getting Started Experience: Build a simple RIA.
- Flex Quick Start: Building a simple user interface
- Flex Quick Start: Building an advanced user interface
- Integrate your data.
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Hook data into your app with BlazeDS.
- Build on your knowledge
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- Visit the Flex Getting Started Experience on learn.adobe.com.
- Get inspired: Go to the Flex showcase to see what other developers are building with Flex and PHP together.
- Subscribe to the RSS feeds from the Flex Developer Center and Flex cookbook to keep up on articles, tutorials, sample apps, and tips.
Featured articles

Get the sample code to read and write data to and from PHP with Flex using XML.

Mihai Corlan (Feb. 25, 2008)
See Flex Builder engineer Mihai Corlan show how the new Flex Builder 3 project wizard makes it fast and easy to get started with Flex using ColdFusion, PHP, Java, or ASP.NET.

Run these examples to get started using Flex with PHP.

Learn how to use Flex with the Zend Framework, a PHP 5–based library of classes, many of which can be used stand-alone.
Charlie Key (Sept. 4, 2007)
Send simple objects, along with arrays of objects, between a PHP server and a Flex client using JavaScript Object Notation encoding.
Discover how to code a Flex 2 application to retrieve Drupal nodes through the Drupal API.
Learn how to call PHP remote objects by using RemoteObject and the Flex remote procedure call service.