Flash has to run client side because once it's served from a server, the
server can't run the code on it's own processor anymore, unless you want
something like X-Windows. It's not prejudice, it's due to the the way
computers started to work round-about the 80's when people could afford
home computers and did not have to use giant mainframes with remote
terminals (screen + keyboard).
Does Flash *have* to be client side or is this just a built-in prejudice
from a history of having been such? That is, what's the harm of redefining
Flash's purpose?
The disadvantage of having your SQL engine in Flash is that someone can
decompile your Flash code and pretty much know all your stuff about your
databases by reading the SQL. Plus, if you have your database username
and password in the Flash application, you are fairly f***ed and most
system administrators would be laughing you off the park.
Yeah, I'm not ready to do that just now. I was just thinking about my
shopping cart and how cool it would be to rewrite at least the pages that
the end user sees in AS3. But that would require a MySQL engine. Well, how
hard would it be? Tell me...
beno
MySQL engine - how hard? How long is a piece of string? I mean you just
have to talk to the server on port 3306 and handle all communications
with it, personally, I would leave that to the teams of people who right
these things for other languages rather than re-invent the wheel all the
time. Unless someone is paying you to do it, or you are a bored,
masochistic, trustafarian.
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