Today I looked for a replacement for my old jspanserializer.js script that I can’t even remember where I found anymore. Turns out that I wont have to either, I can forget it. From now on I’ll use jQuery JSON instead.

First lets take a look at what will be the result of this tutorial and see what it does. Below we have a simple flex app with a datagrid component and a button. The datagrid is filled with some sample data, which, in this case, is some information about a few of the tutorials on this site...

Basically what I am going to go over here is how to use php and json to send data to your flex application, and then how to use that data in Adobe Flex.

As many clever sods across the world no doubt know, AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML.