Hi Matthew,
Thanks for the reply, it cleared things up.
What i 'm trying to achieve is this: I have a application that is just
listening to updates according to the preferences within tha app, and
checks every 5 minutes if there is an update. However with the push
model , as soon as an update is available it is pushed to all connected
clients. And this is what i would like to accomplish, to have updates
pushed to my app. Updates are in the form of xml or text (dont know how
an socket server pushes its data, or in what format it is. is there and
uniform format or can i specify?)
Thanks
Sidney
Matthew James Poole wrote:
Hi Sidney,
It is possible to write socket servers in PHP (theres one in the Pear
library), but php is not generally considered a good language to write
one in. As such most Socket Servers used with Flash are written in Java
(or sometimes .Net).
It really depends on what you are trying to achieve, for example if its
multiuser games or chat then there are plenty of 3rd party solutions out
there - SmartFox and ElectroServer being just two. Also have you
considered using FMS? The new FMSI (or FMS 3.0) is looking like it will
be very good...
... If the data doesn't need to be instantly synchronised across all
users then you might be better opting for polling your php on interval.
BlazeDS is the new Open Source remoting and web messagaing solution from
Adobe. I believe it used to be part of Life Cycle Data services which is
a paid-for product, but Adobe have now opened it up. Ultimately there
will be some sort of socket server involved in BlazeDS. BlazeDS is more
the framework that makes it easy to integrate distributed data into
Flex/AIR (also its written in Java so you'd need some sort of Java
application server such as Apache Tomcat (free) or IBM Websphere (not
free) etc).
Heres the BlazeDS link on labs:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/
Hope all this helps
Cheers
Matt
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de Koning
Sent: 08 January 2008 15:54
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] PUSH/PULL model in AIR
Hi Matthew!
With a socket server, can you tell me how to go? What software would i
need, and how long would it take to set up a socket server? (can this be
done with php, or do i need another language? because it needs to
support quite some people).
Can you also explain the difference tween a socket server and BlazeDS?
Thanks in advance,
Sidney
Matthew James Poole wrote:
Everything you can do in Flex you can do in AIR, with the addition
that the security model is more relaxed. So yes polling a php script
would work. Or you could use XMLSocker or BinarySocker to have actual
push - though you'd need a socket server to achieve this...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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de Koning
Sent: 08 January 2008 14:30
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: [Flashcoders] PUSH/PULL model in AIR
Hi List,
Is there a push/pull model in AIR like there is in Flex? I need to
show a popup if the database has changed.
What is the best way of realizing this?
My idea was this;
let the air app contact a server/database (through php) with an
interval of 5 minutes orso to see if the data has changed, and if so,
show the popup. To simulate a push model.
If anybody has some ground breaking ideas, or a really good way of
realizing this, i'd love to hear!
Thanks,
Sidney
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