Comments on: My first AIR application http://daniel.carrera.bz/2008/05/my-first-air-application/ No trees were killed in the production of this website. Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:06:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Daniel http://daniel.carrera.bz/2008/05/my-first-air-application/comment-page-1/#comment-412 Daniel Wed, 27 May 2009 10:09:24 +0000 http://daniel.carrera.name/2008/05/31/my-first-air-application/#comment-412 PHP is a server-side language. The only way you could use it with Adobe AIR would be if AIR came with a web server and that server supported PHP. You make dynamic apps through either JavaScript or Flash. I would recommend jQuery. It is a really good and easy to learn library. Adobe AIR provides an API to JavaScript that is not normally available on a browser. That API allows you to open files, use a local storage (but not MySQL) and do other things that JavaScript is not normally allowed to do. Don't confuse JavaScript with the DOM API. JavaScript is just a language and in principle it can do anything. But browsers don't give JavaScript access to the computer for obvious security reasons. PHP is a server-side language. The only way you could use it with Adobe AIR would be if AIR came with a web server and that server supported PHP.

You make dynamic apps through either JavaScript or Flash. I would recommend jQuery. It is a really good and easy to learn library.

Adobe AIR provides an API to JavaScript that is not normally available on a browser. That API allows you to open files, use a local storage (but not MySQL) and do other things that JavaScript is not normally allowed to do.

Don’t confuse JavaScript with the DOM API. JavaScript is just a language and in principle it can do anything. But browsers don’t give JavaScript access to the computer for obvious security reasons.

]]> By: Conor http://daniel.carrera.bz/2008/05/my-first-air-application/comment-page-1/#comment-411 Conor Tue, 12 May 2009 23:50:03 +0000 http://daniel.carrera.name/2008/05/31/my-first-air-application/#comment-411 Are you sure it is not possible to make AIR applications with PHP? I have been doing some hard searching on the matter and couldn't find a solution anywhere. Maybe it just cannot be done! If you can't use PHP then how do you make the application dynamic? Is it just through the use of JavaScript? Hopefully not because my JavaScript knowledge is very bad and my PHP knowledge is very good! :-) Could you use jQuery? How would you perform more complex tasks such as using FTP, sending emails or connecting to MySQL? Are they possible with JavaScript? I am new to AIR as you might have noticed but I really like the concept. If only it ran PHP! :-) Are you sure it is not possible to make AIR applications with PHP? I have been doing some hard searching on the matter and couldn’t find a solution anywhere. Maybe it just cannot be done!

If you can’t use PHP then how do you make the application dynamic? Is it just through the use of JavaScript? Hopefully not because my JavaScript knowledge is very bad and my PHP knowledge is very good! :-)

Could you use jQuery?

How would you perform more complex tasks such as using FTP, sending emails or connecting to MySQL? Are they possible with JavaScript?

I am new to AIR as you might have noticed but I really like the concept. If only it ran PHP! :-)

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