<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.amqp.html">AMQP</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="amqp.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.amqp.html">AMQP</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.amqp" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> <a href="http://www.amqp.org/" class="link external">» AMQP</a> stands for <a href="http://www.amqp.org/" class="link external">» Advanced Message Queue Protocol</a>, which is an open standard middleware layer for message routing and queuing. This extension is compatible with any Version 0-9-1 compatible AMQP broker, such as <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/" class="link external">» RabbitMQ</a> and <a href="http://www.openamq.org/" class="link external">» OpenAMQ</a>. </p> <p class="para"> This extension relies on the <a href="https://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c" class="link external">» librabbitmq</a> RPC library for communicating with the AMQP broker. Though named "rabbit", this library is compatible with all Version 0-9-1 compatible AMQP brokers. </p> <p class="para"> We *HIGHLY* recommend you review the <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/amqp-0-9-1-reference.html" class="link external">» AMQP specification reference, version 0-9-1</a>. This document will help explain a lot of the calls made available by this extension. </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.amqp.html">AMQP</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="amqp.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.amqp.html">AMQP</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>