On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Jordan L. Chilcott - Interactivity Unlimited <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I'm getting this straight: > > You're asking for a date from the server which you're going to pass back > for approval to show a coupon on the client side app. > > Why not just have the server store and send the coupon for the application > to use? The client simply makes one call (two at most... but it can be > handled in one call, letting the server do all the work - the client is a > simple willing participant). No other data is passed back for the client to > manipulate. > > jord > -- > Jordan L. Chilcott > > Sent from my iPhone... because I can > > On 2011-03-14, at 3:40 PM, Kevin Holleran <[email protected]> wrote: > > > @Jord - The date will be passed in or retrieved from a script and would > be > > the server date. My concern was that the date would be > intercepted/modified > > in some fashion, but since the end result is retrieved from the server, > the > > server script will just have a check to make sure the date is right to > > release it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > The engine is a countdown from the current date/time to the date/time when the coupon becomes visible. So the date is used for the counter and then once the counter reaches zero, the coupon is retrieved from the server and displayed. Kevin _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
