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3 <sect1 id="zend.amf.introduction">
4 <title>Introduction</title>
7 <classname>Zend_Amf</classname> provides support for Adobe's <ulink
8 url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Message_Format">Action
9 Message Format</ulink> (<acronym>AMF</acronym>), to allow communication between Adobe's
10 <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player">Flash
11 Player</ulink> and <acronym>PHP</acronym>. Specifically, it provides a gateway server
12 implementation for handling requests sent from the Flash Player to the
13 server and mapping these requests to object and class methods and
18 The <ulink url="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/amf/amf3_spec_121207.pdf">AMF3
19 specification</ulink> is freely available, and serves as a reference
20 for what types of messages may be sent between the Flash Player and