melbourne chapter

I am planning next year to travel to the PHP NY Conference and was excited to hear about the sort of demonstrations that were presented. Mike Potter and Allen Seirafi presented a talk on Flex and PHP. I had originally heard about Flex back at Uni where we had a presentation from a Macromedia rep and it looked quite promising. The Flex works by allowing developers to code a View component of an MVC framework in XML that would translate to Flash interfaces with rich components (such as datagrids etc). He mentioned in his notes about the Flex SDK being provided for free, but the interface ‘Flex Builder’ would not be. I am still interested to know how the application is deployed, at the time it was on a Java Web Container server (BEA/Tomcat) and costed a lot of money. He also provided a link to AMFPHP which is Flash Remoting for PHP, perfect for my research!
Have a look at his blog here: http://blogs.adobe.com/mikepotter/2006/06/php_conference.html