Adobe Launches Drupal App on Flex.org - The Flex Showcase
Yesterday the Adobe Flex team launched a Drupal powered application that showcases applications built with Adobe Flex. The new Flex Showcase is online now at http://flex.org/showcase_app.
The backend of the application uses Drupal, along with the Services, AMFPHP, Vote up / down and CCK modules. The front end of the application is written in Adobe Flex, with custom components written in Flash.
Drupal was chosen for the application because we needed a PHP framework that supported user registration and management, content management, categorization and tagging, and comments. Drupal was the best choice for these services, and with the work that Scott Nelson had already done with the Services and AMFPHP modules, the choice was easy.
This was a big decision for us. The Flex showcase is the most popular page on the Flex.org site, which had over 100,000 visits in August alone. (Its even more popular than the front page.)
The new application replaces a static HTML page that had screenshots and a one line description of applications. Developers can now add and manage their own applications, and include more screenshots and a longer description.
We created a number of new services for this application and fixed some bugs in the existing services module. All that code has been provided back to the Services/ module. We have contributed all our fixes back to the community, and have only kept one module that is specific to the Flex.org website as non open source. We haven't decided on whether we will open source the Flex application yet. We're thinking about it.
If you have any questions about the application, please let me know. The Services handbook page has some links on how to get started with Drupal and Flex, and Flex.org has a number of great resources for Flex. http://flex.org/php/ is your best bet if you're a PHP developer.
Thanks!
Mike
Mike Potter
Adobe Systems Inc.
Flex Developer Marketing Manager
http://flex.org/
very nice
It's great to see someone as huge to the web design industry as Adobe using Drupal.
The site itself looks very Adobe-ish, great work making Drupal your own. It's also nice to see the Drupal logo up front, and I love that you're giving back to the community by contributing code. Well done.
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open source?
i see that flex is made by adobe and comes for a cost, so i assume it isn't under a gpl license, but i thought i'd ask anyhow. i am not as much of a purist as some (just a die-hard hope-against-hoper), but am also interested to know if there are any budding projects for a similar editor in the open source world. i'm hoping the answer is yes, and would search myself but am not familiar enough with the technology to even know what i would search under...
awillem
Most is open source
This already answered. Look at the comment title "The Flex Framework, compiler" below.
http://www.xmacinfo.com
wow, congratulation drupal,
wow, congratulation drupal, i am intersting on flex technology and happy to see drupal work with flex
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Biladi
http://www.biladi.ma
Excellent showcase!
Great job! I enjoyed taking a look at the various web sites you showcased.
And THANK YOU SO MUCH for fixing some bugs and providing code & fixes back to the community. Your help is greatly appreciated!
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Wow, the site really amaze
Wow, the site really amaze me...
Great job Adobe!
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Amazing!
Amazing! A really great job.
Can it be done with Flash (the backend with Drupal and frontend with Flash)?
Any tutorials or videocasts?
Thanks
It can be done with flash.
It can be done with flash. For tutorials and screencasts see the Services handbook. Also see this thread.
Impressive
Hi Mike,
This is an impressive job you did with Flex and Drupal. I'm looking forward to see more Flex running on top of Drupal.
Question: Where is Flex in the Open Source community? Can we expect to see some or all parts of Flex moved to open source?
The Flex Framework, compiler
The Flex Framework, compiler and debugger have been released under the MPL open source license (for Flex 3).
The virtual machine that is required to execute ActionScript 3 code, which Flex creates, has been released under the MPL license to the Mozilla Foundation as the Tamarin project.
So, pretty much everything related to Flex, except of course the Flash Player, has already been released as open source.
Mike
OpenLazlo
Great work! i hope that to see such initiative with Openlazlo.
OpenLaszlo and Drupal
I am actually working on an OpenLaszlo/Drupal framework. I started it months ago with this post:
http://forum.openlaszlo.org/showthread.php?t=8919
Since then, I have actually put up a site that uses a Drupal back-end for some of the parts. Take a look at the OpenLaszlo/Flash page:
http://www.rhlco.com/
and then look at the Drupal back-end:
http://www.rhlco.com/home
After learning a lot more about Drupal, I think the best route to take would be to write a template engine that outputs XML. Let me know what you think.
I wonder...
...why is this not based on ColdFusion 8?
First off, I'm a PHP
First off, I'm a PHP developer, and I happen to run flex.org as part of the Flex product marketing team, so that was one reason why I chose Drupal.
"Drupal was chosen for the application because we needed a PHP framework that supported user registration and management, content management, categorization and tagging, and comments. Drupal was the best choice for these services, and with the work that Scott Nelson had already done with the Services and AMFPHP modules, the choice was easy."
As far as I know, there's no CF framework that has all those features built into it.
This new site says nothing about ColdFusion. Adobe uses ColdFusion on the adobe.com website - its a great product and is perfect for creating web applications, especially those for large enterprises.
For this particular project, we thought that Drupal was a better fit.
Mike
Wow, I love the way
Wow, I love the way registration and signup is handled with this site. Where can I get info on that specifically?
Drupal or Flex Showcase
Great site!
You might want to change the sign up message, sent to the email address that one uses to register, to mention Flex Showcase instead of Drupal.
"Thank you for registering at Drupal. You may now log in using the following username and password:"
Ade Atobatele
Excellent work
I'm really impressed with the way this came out. A great showcase for Flex apps, and an equally great showcase itself for what the Services module is intended to do. Excellent work!
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Scott Nelson
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Drupal Services Module
Great Possibilities
This builds so many idea in my head. Seems that Drupal is robust enough to act as a backend for anything along these veins. I have plenty of research to get up to speed regarding Flex. Don't know where the time will come from, but I see the need to expand from just creating Drupal sites, to creating Drupal powered sites.
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yep!it gives more
yep!it gives more repute!
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And the stats at the
And the stats at the Drupalcon were saying that Drupal needs more Flash...
They are 3 types of lies, the lies, the damned lies and the statistics ;)
By the way, the is really nicely done! Congratulations! we need such website for Drupal schowcases!
Where's the Drupal?
I guess this is a compliment - I can't see any standard drupalisms on this site at all... Which is good, because Drupal sites tend to be cookie-cutterish, generally. Still, it'd take a few more of these with a few more divergent UIs to really make the underbelly of Drupal shine... Otherwise you're left with people who still don't "get" that it isn't just yet another frontend blog application in php.
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There are thousands of 'these' sites. Drupal, unlike various other CMSs has no requirement that anyone mention in the theme, css, footer, etc that it is using Drupal. As a result, there are thousands of sites using Drupal that you would never see. All it takes is a little bit of planning and effort on the part of the theme implementor.
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It is there... If you want
It is there...
If you want to see it, you can check it out at http://flex.org/showcase_app/drupal/
Mike
Really great work,
Really great work, excellent.
Think. Filozofia i Religia. Or Filozofia i Religia.
very nice work!
Any chance that you will be talking about this project at MAX?
I would love to get the inside scoop.
Sure, I'd love to! Find me
Sure, I'd love to! Find me next week at the Flex booth or at the meet the Flex team event and we can chat about it.
I may also do a session during the Flex boot camp on Wednesday morning about it.
Mike
For those of you in Europe,
For those of you in Europe, I'll be at MAX Europe in Barcelona, so we can chat about it there too.
http://www.adobemax2007.com/
Mike
Oh man, my two favorite
Oh man, my two favorite worlds collide, but my exclamation key is busted - WTH. Drupalers should be happy and proud; Developers and end user types - EXCLAMATION POINT.
stupid usb keyboard.
would love to see the flex code
+1 on opensourcing at least a bit of your flex app.
Thanks, we'll keep that in
Thanks, we'll keep that in mind. I think a lot of people would like to see it, and I think it might make for an interesting app if we did that. I need to talk to the vendor about it.
Mike
Congratulations!
It's realy greate!
it would be nice to have the source
Somone should come out with a source to something similar.. ive only had trouble connecting to services via flash so i gave up :(
JK