RE: [PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
We are just about to try and get this working with sockets ourselves. Our intranet currently does exactly what you are trying to do, but without using sockets. In reply to your question, there is no one site for XMLRPC really. I suggest you read up on the following subjects: XMLRPC document specification: http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec Flash XML object: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/tools_xmlobject.html PHP XMLRPC implementation: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.xmlrpc.php Using XMLRPC instead of the previously mentioned methods of loading the PHP output as a text file has the following benefits: 1. Complete freedom to communicate a complex data structure, including multidimensional arrays. This is difficult if not impossible to do with simple PHP text output. 2. Data types are kept intact when being transferred. E.g. there is no confusion as to whether: 1 = integer: 1 1 = string: 1 1 = Boolean: true 3. XMLRPC is an industry standard. Using it will allow other developers to easily build clients for your server side script should you wish. 4. PHP has full XMLRPC functionality built in; Flash has XML functionality built in. There is a little extra work involved in extending the Flash XML object to an XMLRPC parser (or you could try one of the OpenSource alternatives), but I recommend building one yourself if you have the time, it really helps you understand XML. -Original Message- From: Eric Bolikowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
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 jon bennett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] new media creative _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ J b e n . n e t 91 Gloucester Rd, Trowbridge, Wilts, BA14 0AD t: +44 (0) 1225 341039 w: http://www.jben.net/ 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
you might want to check out http://www.flash-remoting.com/ as well. There's also a book from oreilly. Cheers, Jon jon bennett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] new media creative _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ J b e n . n e t 91 Gloucester Rd, Trowbridge, Wilts, BA14 0AD t: +44 (0) 1225 341039 w: http://www.jben.net/ 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 jon bennett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] new media creative _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ J b e n . n e t 91 Gloucester Rd, Trowbridge, Wilts, BA14 0AD t: +44 (0) 1225 341039 w: http://www.jben.net/ 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
Hi everybody helping me on this I have not gotten a lot of tips, I appreciate all the help I have gotten here. I have decided to try out different technologies that I have been advised and measure performance to choose the best and fastest one! Eric Eric Bolikowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
I guess that's good enough reason for me. As far as connecting with sockets, though: you should connect from Flash to the PHP file, not from PHP to the Flash file, I think. And, in order to do that, you would need to ask some people who specialize in Flash and ActionScript, so the boards at Macromedia.com may be the best place to ask. Then again, I could be absolutely wrong. ;-) -Ben 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
I am doing the same thing at the moment, I'm building a Flash/PHP/MySQL chat system capable of handling over 1000 users online at one time. GET and POST just doesn't cut it, so I began to explore other avenues, and XML Socket's seem like the best and only option. But I expect to burn the midnight oil on this one. Marc Ben Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that's good enough reason for me. As far as connecting with sockets, though: you should connect from Flash to the PHP file, not from PHP to the Flash file, I think. And, in order to do that, you would need to ask some people who specialize in Flash and ActionScript, so the boards at Macromedia.com may be the best place to ask. Then again, I could be absolutely wrong. ;-) -Ben 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Flash-PHP Socket Connection
check out http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ircg.php and http://www.schumann.cx/ircg/ I am doing the same thing at the moment, I'm building a Flash/PHP/MySQL chat system capable of handling over 1000 users online at one time. GET and POST just doesn't cut it, so I began to explore other avenues, and XML Socket's seem like the best and only option. But I expect to burn the midnight oil on this one. Marc Ben Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess that's good enough reason for me. As far as connecting with sockets, though: you should connect from Flash to the PHP file, not from PHP to the Flash file, I think. And, in order to do that, you would need to ask some people who specialize in Flash and ActionScript, so the boards at Macromedia.com may be the best place to ask. Then again, I could be absolutely wrong. ;-) -Ben 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: flash - php
Couple good places to start... http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/hill20011214.php3 http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/articles/flashmx_php.html Joseph Zeljko Bozic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 001b01c26ca2$cc79c7b0$b3411ad9@stuntssw9fdkdl">news:001b01c26ca2$cc79c7b0$b3411ad9@stuntssw9fdkdl... I'm new to php. want to build swf appl. with sql support need some example (source) please help -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
