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" <br@benandliz.com> wrote in message news:400DA2E2.1010606@benandliz.com... > 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