Many tutorials suggest that you set up the Zend AMF server directly in the bootstrap or index.php file. But what if you want to build a hybrid application with both Flex and HTML interfaces? In this case it’s better to let the bootstrap file do its usual job of application dispatching, and to make the AMF gateway a controller.
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Utilizing the Zend AMF Server Inside a Zend Controller
Sunday, December 14th, 2008What’s in the Zend Framework for the Flash/Flex Developer?
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008The 1.7 release of the Zend Framework includes the new Zend_Amf package which provides a gateway server implementation for AMF remoting. By the time of writing this article, there are not many resources available yet (a good starting point is here), and the few tutorials mostly guide you through the process of setting up the bootstrap file and establishing a MySQL database connection by using mysql_connect() directly in the service classes.