Re: PHP / ASP problem....

PHP4 has session support. Check out www.phpbuilder.com for a great tutorial. If you have to use php3, you can use php-lib for simliar functionality. -Rob Z. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Edens" <richard@bloom.nl> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 8:25 AM Subject: [PHP] PHP / ASP problem.... > Hoi, > > My name is Richard Edens and again i'm asking for help... > I need to create a chat program with PHP... > This chat script needs to work together with Macromedia Director > Shockwave. Don't worry... You don't need to explain to me how to do the part > from Director. I know how that goes.. This is because i'm an Macromedia > Director Specialist and also a Multimedia Authoring Designer... > (If you have anny questions about Director or about my, be my quest...) > > Meanwhile you could be wondering, how does this all gonne look like? > How will it work... Well i'll explain it to you now... > > -> I make a shockwave movie that has links to PHP sites. > The links that are used are setup to get HTML text from the PHP sites. > So what ever the PHP sites contains will be grabbed by the > shockwave movie.... > > -> PHP and ASP and even JavaScript can controll there own content of the > HTML formatted file.. This means that PHP and ASP can do stuff to > create temporary or specific content of pages... > In other words, it can send back the contant of the chat sessions... > In this chat case i set the PHP or ASP file up to create chat sessions > and users and etc... everyting thats needed for a good chat site. > > The problem i'm having is that ASP can create server variables that are kept > alive for ever until the server is broke or you tell ASP to just delete it. > These variables can be modifyed and used for users who have opened the ASP > file its created from... In other words: > > Aldo every user can have its own session, usergroups or what ever, they all > use one ASP file with one servervariable... > This greet feature also protects the variable for other ASP files... > So that effentually you have a very simple clean, chat application. > Its like the sessions handle for individual users but than used for ASP > applications... > > The code for this all, looks like this: > > Application.Lock > If action = "send" Then > ' Add the string to the chat session > list = Application(id) > list = list + user + ": " + msg + chr(13) > Application(id) = list > ElseIf action = "clear" Then > ' Clear the chat session > list = "" > Application(id) = list > Else 'If action = "update" Then > ' Just return the current chat session > list = Application(id) > End If > Application.Unlock > > Now is there a way to do this also with PHP... > I really need a good answer for this own, because i couldn't find anny > on the webpages like webmonkey.... > Thanks... > > ...Richard > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >