Background
Okay I'm one of those guys who NEVER asks questions and who can usually find what I need from existing questions or forums....but alas I have spent the last few days trying to figure this one out and have come up with very little existing information.
I am using Flash Builder 4.6 for PHP Premium to build a Flex application that uses the PHP Zend Frameworks's AMF capabilities to map classes from PHP to Flex and to use them as objects to send back and forth instead of using XML or JSON. Right now I am doing it all on a single local machine for ease.
Issue
I am not having trouble mapping my own custom PHP classes into ActionScript/Flex classes but I cannot for the life of me manage to map a DateTime PHP class into an ActionScript Date class. I have read elsewhere that it automatically maps DateTime objects to Date objects but I have never gotten it to work.
Strangely though, I can get it to work if I replace all instances of, in my case, valueObjects.DateTime (the auto-generated ActionScript class) to Date in the _Super_Foo.as class that has the DateTime property. This basically forces Flex to interpret the data of that property as a Date. However, since all the _Super_XXX.as files are files that autogenerated by Flex, it gets rewritten any time I refresh or edit ANY PHP service that Flex is linking to in Flash Builder.
Remarks
I could of course do this the quick and dirty way by keeping the variable as a string (it's coming from MySQL in a DateTime field) and then just create some functions to convert it to a Date object on the client side but I need a more permanent and stable solution.
Example:
<?php
class Foo {
public $id; // int
public $name; // string
public $date; // DateTime
public $bar; // custom object
}
?>
should go to --->
package {
class Foo {
public var id:int;
public var name:String;
public var date:Date; // native class
public var bar:Bar;
}
}
but I am getting
package {
class Foo {
public var id:int;
public var name:String;
public var date:DateTime; // custom class
public var bar:Bar;
}
}
I have tried things such as the following:
in the gateway.php file
$server->setClassMap("Date", "DateTime");using the Zend_Date object instead
$foo->date = new Zend_Date($blah);and after trying to map it as well explicitly
$server->setClassMap("Date", "Zend_Date");the change I currently have working in the _Super_Foo.as file (which gets written over frequently)
private var _internal_date : valueObjects.DateTime; // custom objectto
private var _internal_date : Date; // native objectI just need it to do this automatically like I have read it should.
new Date(timestamp). – Philipp Kyeck