Re: best way to communicate between PHP, Flash/Actionscript across LAN

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Daevid Vincent<daevid@daevid.com> wrote: > I have a demo to create for a tradeshow. We have 3 touch screens and 3 50" > plasmas and 3 G1 (android WiFi) phones. Our own LAN/Router/Wi-Fi. I need a > way so that I can use web pages and Flash (actionscript) to make stuff > happen on any of the displays/phones. So you click a button on the touch > screen and see something happen on the plasma. Or G1 interface application > triggers .flv on touch screen, etc. So I need some kind of messaging queue > over the LAN and that each CPU can both send and recieve? I could use mySQL > as an intermediary to store the data (like strings of text entered or > whatever and pass the record IDs around), or use some other XML/JSON/AJAX or > something. I just don't even know what I'm talking about really. Is this > what DBUS is for? It must work with PHP as we'll have web pages triggering > the .flv as well and of course ActionScript has to be able to work with it > (that's why I was thinking mySQL, AJAX, XML, etc.). > > Ideas? Suggestions? > > someone was telling me about AMQP or RabbitMQ. But neither is PHP-ified that > I can tell. > http://www.nabble.com/PHP-AMQP-client--td12935751.html > > ...and I realize that PHP will run in a web page mostly and I'll have to do > some magic like polling something (like a daemon or DB) via JS/AJAX to see > if I need to pop-up an alert or whatever -- much like a bulletin board does > when you get new mail. > > Step 1: get communication between all computers to work > Step 2: > Step 3: profit! > XML is the preferred method for doing communication with Flex/Flash...perhaps AJAX to handle it all in the background -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat