Wade Arnold

There seems to be lots of questions about the best way to setup your bootstrap/endpoint/index.php file in order to work with Zend Amf. The idea of leveraging the Zend MVC framework to route to your server endpoint is a common question but personally seems like a bad idea. Although it may seem convenient it does not provide any MVC integration and second will slow down the response time of your service greatly.

I typically have something like the following structure:

public/
  .htaccess
  index.php
  xmlrpc.php
  jsonrpc.php
  amf.php

In my .htaccess, I have the following:

php_value date.timezone "UTC"
php_value short_open_tag 1
php_value error_reporting 8191
php_flag  display_errors Off
php_flag  display_startup_errors Off

# Rewrite Rules
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/?xmlrpc  xmlrpc.php  [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/?jsonrpc jsonrpc.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^/?amf     amf.php     [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$       index.php   [NC,L]

Then, in my amf.php, I’d have the following:

setClass(...); // etc...
echo $server->handle();

The rewrite rules allow you to go directly to the given file, and then each file sets up the include_path, autoloading, and the server.

Flash Platform, Zend_Amf

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