AmfPHP

Amfphp
Developer(s)	Wolfgang Hamman, John Cowen, Justin Watkins, Patrick Mineault, Wade Arnold, Ariel Sommeria-Klein
Stable release	2.2.2 Profiler / January 2016
Repository	github.com/silexlabs/amfphp-2.0
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	PHP Library
License	BSD
Website	Amfphp at Silex Labs

Amfphp is a library for creating PHP-based application back ends. Key features are support for AMF among other Protocols, and developer tools such as a service browser, a client code generator, and a performance profiler. Amfphp is used primarily for games and Apache Flex business applications.

Functionalities

• Support for parsing AMF ^[1] and other protocols ^[2]
• service browser ^[3]
• plugin system ^[4]
• Client code generation ^[5]

History

• In 2002 Wolfgang Hamman reverse engineers the AMF format to create a working gateway. ^[6]
• Other developers (Justin Watkins, John Cowen) implemented a good part of the Remoting framework, and released 0.9b in September 2003.
• In December 2004, Patrick Mineault releases version 1.0
• In October 2007 Wade Arnold took the lead of the project to bring a production ready release of Amfphp with support for the AMF3 protocol. 1.9 beta 2 is released in January 2008, but then development stalls as Wade Arnold ^[7] is hired by Adobe to work on Zend AMF. ^[8]
• Ariel Sommeria-klein and Danny Kopping pick up the project in December 2009. Version 1.9 is released in February 2010.
• In 2010 Silex Labs is founded, and officially takes control of the project. Ariel Sommeria-Klein takes team lead.
• version 2.0, a near complete rewrite is released in September 2011. ^[9]
• version 2.1 is released in June 2012, adding client project stub generation. ^[10]
• version 2.2 is released in December 2013, adding performance profiling. ^[11]
• version 2.2.1 is released in August 2014. ^[12]
• version 2.2.2 is released in January 2016. ^[13]

References

1. "Introduction to Amfphp". Archived from the original on 2012-11-01. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
2. Using Alternative Data Formats(JSON, etc.)
3. Connecting to a Database Using Amfphp 4 RemoteObject
4. Plugins
5. Client Generators
6. Flash remoting for PHP: A responsive Client-Server Architecture for the Web
7. Wade Arnold » Zend Amf Questions, Features, Demos, Bugs? Archived June 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
8. Zend Framework
9. Amfphp v2 Reloaded is out
10. Amfphp 2.1 Generator is out!
11. Amfphp 2.2 Profiler is out!
12. Amfphp 2.2.1 Profiler is out!
13. Updates for Amfphp and Baguette AMF

External links

• Amfphp official website
• Adobe tutorial on Starting with Amfphp and Flex
• Baguette AMF, an Amfphp accelator plugin