I have been hearing a lot about Weborb for PHP so I decided to check it out for myself. If you are not familiar with Weborb, it is a server based technology that provides a Flex RPC service implementation which exposes remote PHP objects to a Flex client via remoting utilizing AMF3.

WebORB for PHP can be installed in your server root on any web server which supports PHP 5. Weborb for PHP is very easy to use and the documentation is good. I had it installed and got the sample application up and running in about 5 minutes.

Weborb for PHP is similar to AMFPHP in many respects. Both Weborb for PHP and AMFPHP alpha 1.9 provide AMF3 support. Neither requires FDS. All in all they both provide similar solutions, just in different ways.

If you are a Flex developer who builds backends in PHP, or if you are a PHP developer who is interested in developing rich client applications in Flex then Weborb for PHP is definitely worth a try.

You can check out the simple start up tutorial at the Weborb site. You can also check out WebORBPHPRemoteGateway, which is a generic base class I wrote that developers can extend for use in a Weborb for PHP Flex application.