Code generated in FB 4 for php zend service

Question

I am trying the data generation stuff for php in FB 4
I used to use amfphp and my class would look like this
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
require('DB_CONSTANTS.php');
class AudioService{
    var $connection;
    function AudioService(){
        $this->connection = mysql_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASS);
        mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $this->connection) or die(mysql_error());
    function checkResetPasswordKey($key){
        if (!eregi("^[0-9a-zA-Z]{50}$",$key)) {
            throw new Exception('Bad key');
        /* Verify that user is in database */
        $q = "SELECT * FROM tbusers WHERE forgotPassKey = '$key' AND
now() < forgotPassExpiry";
        $result = mysql_query($q, $this->connection);
        if (!$result) {
            $message  = 'Invalid query: ' . mysql_error() . "\n";
            $message .= 'Whole query: ' . $query;
            throw new Exception($message);
        if ((mysql_numrows($result) < 1)) {
            //throw new Exception('Your ');
        return $result ;
?>
however in the code generated like FB 4 it looks like this, I wanted to know what advantages this has over my method.
Thanks
<?php
class service {
    /*var $username = "nik";
    var $password = "tat0W";*/
    var $username = "root";
    var $password = "";
    var $server = "localhost";
    var $port = "";
    var $databasename = "nikk";
    var $tablename = "contactlist";
    var $connection;
    public function __construct() {
          $this->connection = mysqli_connect(
                                  $this->server, 
                                  $this->username, 
                                  $this->password,
                                   $this->databasename
        $this->throwExceptionOnError($this->connection);
     * Returns all the rows from the table.
     * Add authroization or any logical checks for secure access to your data
     * @return array
    public function getAllTbrawcontactlist() {
        $stmt = mysqli_prepare($this->connection, "SELECT * FROM $this->tablename");       
        $this->throwExceptionOnError();
        mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt);
        $this->throwExceptionOnError();
        $rows = array();
        mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $row->id, $row->email, $row->dateCreated, $row->wantsEmails);
        while (mysqli_stmt_fetch($stmt)) {
          $rows[] = $row;
          $row = new stdClass();
          mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $row->id, $row->email, $row->dateCreated, $row->wantsEmails);
        mysqli_stmt_free_result($stmt);
        mysqli_close($this->connection);
        return $rows;
    private function throwExceptionOnError($link = null) {
         if($link == null) {
            $link = $this->connection;
        if(mysqli_error($link)) {
            $msg = mysqli_errno($link) . ": " . mysqli_error($link);
            throw new Exception('MySQL Error - '. $msg);
?>

Answer 1

I am by no means an expert; furthermore, I do not know PHP, I use ColdFusion. But what I am about to say applies just the same.
"however in the code generated like FB 4 it looks like this, I wanted to know what advantages this has over my method".
Advantages? None, and probably some disadvantages. I have qualms about this "data-centric" paradigm. Just to do some fun testing, I created two little projects:
Using the data-centric features of FB 4,
http://www.timos.com/FB4/CartoonTestREL/CartoonTest.html;
Resulting SWF size: 65 KB.
Using a service I coded, a cusom component based on mx:UIComponent,
http://www.timos.com/FB4/ToonTestREL/ToonTest.html;
Resulting SWF size: 54 KB.
These both have View Source enabled, so you can see the differences.
Anytime you use a program to generate code, that code will almost always be much larger than if you code by hand.
Look at the diference between the generated value objects and my single AS class. I have not run the profiler, so I don't know how many milliseconds' difference there is between how fast these run, but I suspect #2 is faster.
You can go from here.
Best regards,
Carlos