FotoFlexer and ColdFusion

I have now dug a little deeper and see that there is an API with PHP example code.  I can only presume this is what you where asking about in the orginal question.  It would have been very helpful if you had mentioned this up front.  If I had not had some time to kill, I would normally not have dug this deeply.

Anyway the API, is set up that you use Javascript to call the FotoFlexer code and generate the image manipluation requests.  Apparently you provide ad 'callback' page for where the manipluated image will delivered.

A php samle call back page has been provided.  Not really knowing PHP, what I see that page doing is accessing a get (AKA URL) variable.  In ColdFusion, this would be URL.image OR URL["image"].

It then does a check of that url string to make sure it is from the FotoFlexer web site.  A security measure I presume.

It then gets the image from the content_type.  I don't know if this means the image was already delivered, or if this is some type of PHP function that makes a request.  If the latter that would be the <cfhttp...> tag.  If the former that would be using CFMLs request content processing, I'm not familar enought with that to sugest tags or functions, but I'm sure the can be found with a search of the documentation or the internets.

It then saves the image to a local file.  That would be through the <cffile...> or possibly the new <cfimage...> tags.

HTH

Ian

P.S. I see no indication this web service makes use of FLEX.  I see no indication that flash player is running when I access it.  I suspect JQUERY, but I did not dig to find out.

Ok, I googled FotoFlexer and I get a web site http://fotoflexer.com/ for "The worlds most advanced online image editor".  How did you plan to integrate this web site applicaiton into ColdFusion or any other sever technology that you control?

Flex IS NOT ColdFusion.  One is a client side presentation language that uses MXML and ActionScript to leverage the Flash Player for event driven user interface applicaitons.

The other is a server side middle ware language that uses CFML to interact with databases and other data stores to retreive and work with data to be delivered to user interface.  Since the original user interface was HTML it as a lot of capablity to gernerate HTML user interfaces, but it has long since grown beyond working only with HTML.

Flex and ColdFusion hapily work together if a designer would like them to.

Now I will go and google this FotoFlexer and see what you are asking about.