At last I have my final setup up and running. My trusty old laptop will function as webserver. The rest of the things you need can be found in the rest of this post.

on the server side, you will need to get something that can talk to flash. I found a couple of alternatives like Flash Remoting.Net when you are using an .Net enabled server or ordinary Flash Remoting if you are using a coldfusion enabled server.

Since i couldn’t get both of them to work. I am going to use the open source PHP alternative AMFPHP which will probably work just as well as the ones mentioned above. If not….well we’ll just find out won’t we ;).

The next thing which is a must-have, is the newest version of the free Flash Remoting components provided by Macromedia. This will enable your flash authoring tool to talk to your webserver. If you need them, you can get them from the Macromedia site, or from this server.

Finally, the guys from amfphp gave a link to another set of small components ,which i haven’t yet discoverd the use for, but what the hey. Let’s get those too.

This should be all you need to start building your first Rich Internet Application……nice ;)

Starting to get a bit frustrated by the effort it is costing me to make the backbone work for my first RIA. The coldfusion setup wouldn’t work. So that one i could skip instantly. The .NET framework might be working fin with the example of JasonM Perry but ffs. It might just as well take me 5 other people to get the whole .NET stuff ready to rumble.

So the hell with all those handy dandy yadda yadda programming mess. I am going back to my good ol’ PHP days :). SInce the AMF protocol used by Flash Remoting (expensive expensive ;) ) is open source (kind of) it is also being ported to PHP in an open source solution called AMFPHP.

I installed PHP together with it’s new installer flawlessly on my NT server. ANd even better….it is LIGHTNING FAST! woohoo! go PHP ;)

the AMFPHP package seems rather complicated, but a tutorial of Sephiroth about setting up AMFPHP, made it a breeze.

I’ll keep you posted ;) btw. The current example in the sandbox is still using the .NET remoting…which i killed….so it not working makes sence.

A great introductory article about using flash remoting with .net has been written by a guy named “Jason Michael Perry:http://www.jasonmperry.com . It describes a tutorial for writing your first .NET RIA. The article has been used by MM Devnet and can be found here.