AdvancED Flex Application Development: Building Rich Media X [Paperback]

This book provides a practical guide to planning and building a professional Flex 2 application from start to finish. Written by a team of expert developers, the book details, step-by-step, how the authors built the popular Rich Media X (RMX) application for Adobe user groups, step by step. Coverage provides all the information needed to implement several killer web 2.0 features in Flex, including a blog, wiki, events calendar, and more. It is packed with essential practical techniques in use at a professional production environment, which you can learn from and use in your own Flex applications.

This unique book provides a practical guide to planning and building a professional Flex 2 application from start to finish. It is one of the first professional level Flex 2 books available and one of the first to feature PHP/MySQL integration with Flex 2.

Many Flex books cover the basics—this book does something different, and goes far further. The authors, leading Flash platform developers at Almer/Blank, working with Adobe User Group communities, are the creators of the Rich Media Exchange (RMX), a social media network for Adobe developers. In covering just how the RMX was built, this book contains all the knowledge you need to build similar large-scale rich Internet applications with Adobe Flex.

From the inception of the idea through to deployment, the authors show the techniques needed to plan and build advanced applications. You'll learn how to use forms, styles, validators, video, sound analysis, and framework caching, ensuring you make the most of the features introduced in Flex 3.

Powerful applications require solid back ends. This book shows how to hook up a Flex application to PHP back-end systems such as Drupal and OpenAds. You'll learn how various parts of the RMX were built, including the blogs, event calendar, jobs board, and advertising system—elements that comlS‚