简介 Book Description:
First the Web was all static content (HTML). Then as more was expected of sites, server-side technologies like PHP became necessary. But now Rich Internet Applications (RIA) put a lot of the functionality back in the Web browser, so a server-side technology alone will no longer suffice. Developers who have been doing server-side work for years need to broaden their horizons to provide a rich client-side experience. Enter Effortless Flex 4 Development by bestselling author Larry Ullman.
Flash-Flex is a powerful duo for providing a rich, client-side experience. The first third of this book covers the fundamentals of creating Flex apps. The second third is about getting, displaying, validating, and sending data: locally, remotely, and from the user. All server-side code in this book is PHP, and this data-centric view and larger support for PHP is a key focus in Flex 4. The last third is about rounding out the know-how for full application development.
Taking advantage of what Flex 4 has to offer, developers can quickly learn how to create RIAs, some of which interact with PHP scripts running on the server. Adobe has open-sourced Flex and made its SDK freely available, so it is becoming more attractive to developers who prefer open-source projects over commercial ones. Since the author is writing this book as a developer/programmer for other developers/programmers (as opposed to a designers), there is a predominance of how-tos and real-world practices.
目录 Summary of Contents
Introduction
Part One: The Fundamentals
Chapter One: Building Flex Applications
Chapter Two: User Interface Basics
Chapter Three: ActionScript You Need to Know
Chapter Four: Event Management
PART TWO: DATA AnD COMMUnICATIOnS
Chapter Five: Displaying Data
Chapter Six: Manipulating Data
Chapter Seven: Common Data Formats
Chapter Eight: Using Simple Services
Chapter Nine: Using Complex Services
PART THRee: APPLICATIOn DeveLOPMenT
Chapter Ten: Creating Custom Code
Chapter Eleven: Improving the User Experience
Chapter Twelve: Alerts and Pop-ups
Chapter Thirteen: Improving the Appearance
关于作者 About the Author
Larry Ullman is the president of Digital Media and Communications, Inc., a firm specializing in information technology. He is the author of the best-selling book PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide, as well as several other books on related technologies. Larry also writes articles on these subjects and teaches them in small and large group settings. Despite working with computers, programming languages, databases, and such since the early 1980s, Larry still claims he’s not a computer geek (but he admits he can speak their language).