[PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection

[Ben Ramsey]

I guess that's good enough reason for me.  As far as connecting with 
sockets, though: you should connect from Flash to the PHP file, not from 
PHP to the Flash file, I think.  And, in order to do that, you would 
need to ask some people who specialize in Flash and ActionScript, so the 
boards at Macromedia.com may be the best place to ask.

Then again, I could be absolutely wrong. ;-)

-Ben

Eric Bolikowski wrote:

Hey Ben

I know it may sound nuts, but I really want to make a socket connection
between a Flash and a PHP file.
Normally I would simply read in a text file/read XML/send data with GET or
POST, but I'm looking for a socket connections of following reasons:
1) I want a fast connection
2) I'm looking at this as a challenge, because it doesn't seem like anyone
else has done this before
Eric

"Ben Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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What I mean is: you shouldn't need to use sockets to read in a file from
Flash unless you're trying to do something more complicated, but from
the way it sounds, you just want to pull data from MySQL with a PHP
script and output it to Flash.  The PHP script could just echo plain
text and Flash can read that in just fine without needing to connect via
a socket.
-Ben
Ben Ramsey wrote:


Flash has the ability to read in text files, so you could use PHP to
output data in the correct format and use Flash to read the PHP script
like it reads a text file.  We did this in ASP once upon a time.
Here's a tutorial about reading text files into Flash:
http://www.virtual-fx.net/tutorials/html/loadtextfile.htm
Also, from what I understand, Flash now has a great XML parser, so you
could use PHP to generate XML and Flash could read in the XML as
variables.  You might want to look into that, but I think it's only
available in the newest version.
-Ben

Eric Bolikowski wrote:


Hi everybody

I'm working on a site that will be based on Flash, PHP and MySQL. PHP
will
work as a middleware for Flash and MySQL.
My problem is communication between Flash and PHP.
I'm really out looking for using the socket functions in PHP and Flash
to

make fast connection.

I have googled for almost an hour now, and I can't seem to find any
interesting. The only info I find, is about sending data between Flash
and
PHP with HTTP GET or HTTP POST.
So if anybody has some general information on this or a link to a
tutorial
on the subject, I would like to get those resources.
Thanks a lot

Eric
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