Re: [PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection

[Jon Bennett]

you might want to check out http://www.flash-remoting.com/ as well. 
There's also a book from oreilly.

Cheers,

Jon

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On 21 Jan 2004, at 14:40, Jon Bennett wrote:

You would use sockets if you were developing a client/server 
application
that was making a LOT of requests very quickly.

Opening and closing connections using normal HTTP methods gets slow 
when
carrying out such intense data communication.

A good example would be an online game where you need to constantly 
know the
location of all players all the time.


But unless that's the case then there's no need to use sockets, just 
output xml via php/mysql and send that to flash.

Or, if you're ok writing OOP php, then check out amf to php, you can 
then use flash remoting.

http://amfphp.org/

Good luck,

Jon

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On 21 Jan 2004, at 13:52, Donald Tyler wrote:

You would use sockets if you were developing a client/server 
application
that was making a LOT of requests very quickly.

Opening and closing connections using normal HTTP methods gets slow 
when
carrying out such intense data communication.

A good example would be an online game where you need to constantly 
know the
location of all players all the time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Miles Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 7:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
Use xmlReceiver to trigger the back end PHP script. Have that script
generate XML which you parse in Flash. Plain text will work, but a 
single
quotation mark in the text sends you off to never never land. Here's 
an
example:

xmlReceiver.load( "http://"; + host + "feed_xml_article.php");

I know it's not a socket, but it's plenty fast.

Regards - Miles Thompson

PS What good would a socket to PHP do, anyway? (I probably just 
revealed my
ignorance!) /mt

At 11:03 PM 1/20/2004 +0100, 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
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