RE: [PHP] best way to communicate between PHP, Flash/Actionscript across LAN

> -----Original Message----- > From: Bastien Koert [mailto:phpster@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:30 PM > To: Daevid Vincent > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 I'm not so much interested in the transport payload as I am the "how". I need daemons and message queues and that sort of thing that work over TCP/IP. Writing a PHP daemon is not the way to do this I'm sure of that, however I need PHP to be able to talk to it. I thought about DBUS, but that's more for services within a single host computer. Other solutions seem to involve (hackishly) polling every x seconds. Seems there should be a better way. d