I am doing the same thing at the moment, I'm building a Flash/PHP/MySQL chat system capable of handling over 1000 users online at one time.
GET and POST just doesn't cut it, so I began to explore other avenues, and XML Socket's seem like the best and only option. But I expect to burn the midnight oil on this one. Marc "Ben Ramsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
