AmfPHP

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 and other protocols
 * service browser
 * plugin system
 * Client code generation

History

 * In 2002 Wolfgang Hamman reverse engineers the AMF format to create a working gateway.
 * 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 is hired by Adobe to work on Zend AMF.
 * 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.
 * version 2.1 is released in June 2012, adding client project stub generation.
 * version 2.2 is released in December 2013, adding performance profiling.
 * version 2.2.1 is released in August 2014.
 * version 2.2.2 is released in January 2016.