• February 26, 2007

Developer Works: Generate Flash movies on the fly with PHP

Rich Internet Applications is the new buzz-phrase for Web 2.0, and a key component of the substance behind Web 2.0 is Adobe Flash. Learn how to integrate Flash movies into your application and generate Flash movies dynamically using the Ming library.

Web 2.0 promises Rich Internet Applications. But what does Rich Internet Applications mean? In general, it means adding highly responsive interactivity to a Web application. Specifically, it means widgets, Web forms, and reports that change on the page instantly without having to retrieve a new page from the server.

One method for building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) is to use Dynamic HTML (DHTML), which is a combination of Ajax, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HTML (see Resources). But DHTML isn’t the only way of adding interactivity to your Web application. Another big player is the Adobe Flash Player, which has been adding interactivity to Web sites for more than a decade.

While the first version of Flash was a tool to create animated images, newer versions can host an entire interface that controls Web service access and provides full scripting support using ECMAScript (the official version of JavaScript).

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