AMF Support in Zend Framework to be Released in 1.7

Some of you reading may be familiar with the fact that Adobe has decided to contribute AMF support to Zend Framework for deeper Flex and AIR integration. You might even be familiar with the fact that Adobe has decided to go on tour with rock stars like Kevin Hoyt to PHP groups spreading the good news while providing some ZF+AMF training.  Riafox made the decision months back to use ZF for our back-end php code so as you can imagine we were pleasantly surprised by both announcements.

Speaking of pleasantly surprised, something funny happened to me today.  I came into work all ready to grab the latest Zend_Amf from incubator and play with it to put together a post on how to integrate Zend Framework and Flex. To my surprise it wasn’t there. I knew it should be there, I had stopped to visit countless times before.  It didn’t even leave a note, or a forwarding address.  ”Could it be?” I asked myself as I began browsing trunk.  Lo and behold there it was in all of its “I’m-going-to-be-in-the-next-release” glory.

Zend_Amf will be released in version 1.7 which is in the “sanity” (semi-nearing the release candidate) stage.

If you are curious, I compiled a snapshot of the Zend_Amf portion of the manual and stuck it here.

To celebrate, starting Tuesday 10/13 we are going to feature a 7 part series on building a complete rich Internet application a la Zend Framework and Flex using the new Zend_Amf component.

We hope to see you for that, but in the meantime here are some handy links:

Zend Amf Component Proposal

Zend Framework Trunk w/ Zend_AMF

Zend_Amf Manual

Cheers!

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