PHP And Silverlight - DevDays session

PHP and SilverlightMaarten Balliauw & Kevin Dockx

RealDolmen

LEVEL 200

Who are we?

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Maarten Balliauw – RealDolmen

E-mail: [email protected]

Blog: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be

Twitter: http://twitter.com/maartenballiauw

Kevin Dockx – RealDolmenE-mail:

[email protected] Blog:

http://kevindockx.blogspot.com

Agenda

• What is Silverlight?• Why Silverlight?• Why Silverlight and PHP?• Building an application using both• More on Silverlight• Q&A

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What is Silverlight?

• Rich Applications are the future, today– Adobe Flex– Microsoft Silverlight

• Silverlight– “A framework for providing rich applications to

the browser”– “A cross-browser, cross-platform

implementation of the .NET Framework for building and delivering the next generation of Rich Internet Applications for the web”

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What is Silverlight?

• 4-5 MB plugin– Download once, distributed through Windows

Update– Also available on Linux (Moonlight) and Mac

• Runs in browser, on the client– Internet Explorer– Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome

• Subset of the full .NET Framework– Originated from Windows Presentation

Foundation

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Why Silverlight?

• HTML / PHP / ASPX / AJAX– Best days are over…– Extending HTML (CSS 3, AJAX, …)– “like putting lipstick on a pig”

• Silverlight– Stateful model – .NET Framework– UI Capabilities– Cross-platform

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Why Silverlight and PHP?

• Best of both worlds?• PHP– Rapid application programming– Ideal as back-end using JSON or SOAP– Re-use your existing PHP logic

• Silverlight– Rapid user interface development– Create rich interfaces using a rich

framework

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Programming Silverlight

• XAML– “an XML file that defines user interfaces”– Tool: Expression Blend (or Eclipse)

• .NET– Rich framework offering endless possibilities– Tool: Microsoft Visual Studio (2008, .NET 3.5, SP1) (or

Eclipse)

• PHP– i.e. Zend Framework– Tool: Zend Studio (or Eclipse PDT)

Strong separation of UI design & logic

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Getting started

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1• Silverlight Tools for VS2008 SP1

– VS2008 Updates– Project Templates– Runtime– SDK

• Expression Blend 2.0 SP1• Possibility: Eclipse4SL -

http://www.eclipse4sl.org/

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• Under active development (ongoing)• Catching up Visual Studio 2008 Silverlight

editing possibilities– But just like VS2008: still not the rich designer

that Expression Blend is…

• Currently Win & Mac• Next milestone: full SL debugging

http://www.eclipse4sl.org

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Why Eclipse4SL?

• Allows Eclipsedevelopers to buildRIA with Silverlight

• Allows Collaborationbetween– Web Designers– .NET Developers– Eclipse Developers

(Java, PHP, ..)

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Common Project System

.NET Developer

Web Designer

Eclipse Developer

DEMOEditing a Silverlight Solution

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What about my data?

• Silverlight does not include data namespaces (client tech)!

• For most apps, this forces you to use a Service Oriented Architecture

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Communicating (with data services)• Silverlight includes support for

– WebClient, WebHttpRequest-classes– REST, JSON, SOAP, …– Windows Communication Foundation– … almost any kind of service can be accessed

• Preferred way to communicate: through WCF– BasicHttpBinding

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Zend Framework SOAP

• Not 100% compatible WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 – http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/BasicProfile-1.1-2004-08-2

4.html

• WCF supports the ZF implementation• Silverlight doesn’t: subset of WCF• SOAP service should be possible with

NuSOAP

• Solution we used: JSONApril 12, 2023 PHP and Silverlight 17

Communicating with JSON-service

• CrossDomain.xml / ClientAccessPolicy.xml– Tells SL it/who can access the service

• Use WebClient• Add handler to completed event• Call service method (Async)

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DEMOBarTender - Communicating with

service

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{Liquify} your brain

DEMOBarTender - Communicating with

service

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Participate in our demo!

http://ow.ly/6OQ1

Keywords when working with data

• DataContext• DataBinding• INotifyPropertyChanged/CollectionChanged• ValueConverters

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What else is there?

• Localization

• Isolated Storage

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Resources: Silverlight Toolkit

• Contains controls, components, utilities to use in SL apps (MS, source available)– AutoCompleteBox, different Panel controls,

UpDown control, Treeview, Expander, …– Charting component– ImplicitStyleManager– Various themes included

• http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight

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Resources: Blacklight

• Contains components to use in SL apps, focussed on design (3rd party, source available)– Glass, DropShadow, InnerGlow,

OuterGlow, Perspective Shadow, Radial Shadow Border

– DragDrop Panel, Animated Layout Panel

• http://www.codeplex.com/Blacklight

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Resources

• http://silverlight.net/• http://codeplex.com/Silverlight• http://codeplex.com/Blacklight• http://silverlightdragdrop.codeplex.com

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Questions and Answers

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Next steps…

• Since we are last today…• Go grab a beer!• Pay us a beer!

• Enjoy your day and weekend!

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http://blog.maartenballiauw.be http://kevindockx.blogspot.com