Patrick Mineault, Who supercharged the AMFPHP project and give re-birth to this open source project, announced an UnOfficial version of AMFPHP on his Blog.

Here are the new features list for AMFPHP:

• A brand new engine
• Multiple charsets and languages support
• Paged resultsets
• Massive speedup on large resultsets
• Better debugging events support
• Tighter integration with the service browser panel
• SQLite and MySQLi support
• PHP5 support
• Cookieless sessions
• HTML-based service browser with automatic code generation

So, Rush and Contribute any bugs you find … Also see if it breaks your current applications … and if so then please keep him updated!

Few Links of your use:

Download: AMFPHP 1.0 beta (UnOfficial) Last updated on 26th of March

AMFPHP Project Site

Development and Documentation WiKi

When: Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM US/Eastern

Description:

Macromedia Technical Support Engineer Bentley Wolfe will introduce Flash beginners to basic Flash video concepts. You’ll learn how Flash imports and exports video and how to create Flash FLV files for use with Player and Flash Communication Server.

What You Will Learn:

• Video formats that Flash MX 2004 imports
• Importing video into Flash MX 2004
• Using Flash MX 2004 to create video
• Creating FLVs
• Creating FLVs
• Playing FLVs as embedded video; linking with media components and using the Flash Communication Server

You must register for this Macrochat at:

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=149624&loc=en_us

I previously wrote about the Flash Player Detection Kit breezo.

You can have Recorded Version of that Breezo here.

If you missed that breezo previously then you can enjoy this recorded breezo.

Today is Friday and MM arranged Macrochat for today.

Topic: Intro to the Flash Player Detection Kit Macrochat Friday, January 28, 2005 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM US/Eastern

Registeration Here

More Information:

Macromedia Senior Technical Support Engineer Jason Wylie will be presenting “Introducing the Flash Player Detection Kit”. Tune in and learn how to create a Flash Player detection script from scratch, use the Detection Kit to create the script, and understand why detecting the Flash Player on a website is vitally important to ensuring your visitors have the best web experience possible.

What You Will Learn:

* What is Flash Player detection?
* Why do you need to detect the player?
* How do you detect the player
* Detection options and reviewing the code it creates
* Dreamweaver Extensions
* 3rd party methods
* Moock FPI
* BrowserHawk
* Multiple sites (one HTML and one Flash site)

Thanks to Macromedia people for doing such community events.

I got interesting link from Abdul Qabiz Blog animation via as2 library. Its really nice. Its really nice one with all required step-by-step tutorials about how to use them in our projects. And its FREE to use as its based on Mozilla MPL.

Homepage: link

Readme: link

Step-by-step Tutorial: link

Development History: link

Download: link