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.

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

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]