AmfPHP

{{Infobox software

| name = Amfphp

| logo = Amfphp puzzle.jpg

| logo size = 200px

| caption = Amfphp - Simple Remoting for Web Applications

| developer = Wolfgang Hamman, John Cowen, Justin Watkins, Patrick Mineault, Wade Arnold, Ariel Sommeria-Klein

| latest_release_version = 2.2.2 Profiler

| latest_release_date = January 2016

| operating_system = Cross-platform

| genre = PHP Library

| license = BSD

| website = [http://silexlabs.org/amfphp/ 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{{Cite web |url=http://flashspeaksactionscript.com/introduction-to-amfphp/ |title=Introduction to Amfphp |access-date=2012-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101005013/http://flashspeaksactionscript.com/introduction-to-amfphp/ |archive-date=2012-11-01 |url-status=dead }} and other protocols [http://www.silexlabs.org/amfphp/documentation/using-alternative-data-formatsjson-etc/ Using Alternative Data Formats(JSON, etc.)]
service browser [http://flexperiential.com/2010/05/15/connecting-to-a-database-using-amfphp-flex-4-remoteobject/ Connecting to a Database Using Amfphp 4 RemoteObject]
plugin system[http://www.silexlabs.org/amfphp/documentation/plugins/ Plugins]
Client code generation[http://www.silexlabs.org/amfphp/documentation/client-generators/ Client Generators]

History

In 2002 Wolfgang Hamman reverse engineers the AMF format to create a working gateway.[http://amfphp.sourceforge.net/about.html Flash remoting for PHP: A responsive Client-Server Architecture for the Web]
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[http://wadearnold.com/blog/flash/zend-amf-questions-features-demos-bugs Wade Arnold » Zend Amf Questions, Features, Demos, Bugs?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626074712/http://wadearnold.com/blog/flash/zend-amf-questions-features-demos-bugs |date=June 26, 2009 }} is hired by Adobe to work on Zend AMF.[http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/zend.amf.introduction.html Zend Framework]
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.[http://www.silexlabs.org/130225/the-blog/amfphp-v2-reloaded-is-out/ Amfphp v2 Reloaded is out]
version 2.1 is released in June 2012, adding client project stub generation.[http://www.silexlabs.org/132935/the-blog/amfphp-2-1-generator-is-out/ Amfphp 2.1 Generator is out!]
version 2.2 is released in December 2013, adding performance profiling.[http://www.silexlabs.org/amfphp-2-2-profiler-released/ Amfphp 2.2 Profiler is out!]
version 2.2.1 is released in August 2014.[http://www.silexlabs.org/amfphp-2-2-1-released/ Amfphp 2.2.1 Profiler is out!]
version 2.2.2 is released in January 2016.[http://www.silexlabs.org/updates-for-amfphp-and-baguette-amf/ Updates for Amfphp and Baguette AMF]

References

External links

[http://www.silexlabs.org/amfphp/ Amfphp official website]
[http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Starting_with_AMFPHP-11947.html Adobe tutorial on Starting with Amfphp and Flex]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20180622033212/http://baguetteamf.com/ Baguette AMF, an Amfphp accelator plugin]

Category:PHP libraries

Category:Free software programmed in PHP

Category:Software using the BSD license