I am currently thinking about how to implement a realtime chat using the XMLSocket functionality in Macromedia Flash 5 using the PHP socket functions. Here's a quote from the Flash 5 online help: ----------------------- begin quote ----------------------- Using the XMLSocket object To use the XMLSocket object, the server computer must run a daemon that understands the protocol used by the XMLSocket object. The protocol is as follows: XML messages are sent over a full-duplex TCP/IP stream socket connection. Each XML message is a complete XML document, terminated by a zero byte. An unlimited number of XML messages can be sent and received over a single XMLSocket connection. The XMLSocket object is useful for client-server applications that require low latency, such as real-time chat systems. A traditional HTTP-based chat solution frequently polls the server and downloads new messages using an HTTP request. In contrast, an XMLSocket chat solution maintains an open connection to the server, which allows the server to immediately send incoming messages without a request from the client. Setting up a server to communicate with the XMLSocket object can be challenging. If your application does not require real-time interactivity, use the loadVariables action, or Flash's HTTP-based XML server connectivity (XML.load, XML.sendAndLoad, XML.send), instead of the XMLSocket object. To use the methods of the XMLSocket object, you must first use the constructor, new XMLSocket, to create a new XMLSocket object. ----------------------- end quote ----------------------- Does anyone have any knowledge of similar projects/attempts to create a server in PHP that would be able to talk to a client that uses the Flash 5 XMLSocket object, or would anyone care to provide some pointers to other resources about it? I've never tried to write a server, but this might solve quite a few problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. Http really sucks when you try to do anything vaguely more complicated than a mailto form, seeing that it is a stateless protocol . . . and Flash 5 could fill that gap for the stuff I'd like to do at least. Regards, Frank -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
