On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 18:59 -0600, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> Howdy cats and kittens!
> 
> I had an interesting thought after watching a demo of a POS system and
> wondered if the same type of methodology could be applied in a PHP
> application. I haven't thought this all the way through, but a
> fully-hatched idea like this could signal a major change in applications
> designed with PHP.
> 
> In the POS if the network connectivity was lost the store could continue
> to operate, once the network connectivity was restored the data from
> each store would sync back up and data would be sent to the central
> server, yadda, yadda, yadda. Of course this is in a client/server
> application with an executable residing on each workstation.
> 
> So, if you wanted to do this with PHP you would likely have to have a
> local web /database server (each store), establish a socket (primary and
> store servers?) to watch for an outage/restore and then write the code
> to support the sync up. Can it be done with PHP? It would definitely be
> worth the trouble given the frequency that connections to stores get
> lost.

Let's make a check list:

    local webserver         -- check
    local database server   -- check
    socket support          -- check
    write code              -- check

All signs point to YES :)

Cheers,
Rob.
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