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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I'm making this quiz game, right... and I'm thinking of doing the multiuser back end entirely with PHP and MySQL. A unique table is created for each game, and dropped at the end of it; and then every Flash client calls a PHP script every few seconds to see if there are any significant updates. The "needs update" flag would be set on the server side, so it's not like Flash would be requesting a lot of info every two seconds and making its own decision; instead, it would send a request, and get back either a "no update needed" XML blurb [i]or[/i] XML blurbs containing the new information. There's not much data involved anyway -- just a listing of player names, their answers, their point totals. Since the game isn't real-time, this should work. Players aren't competing to ring the buzzer, they're all answering on a client-side timer, and competing on total points stored server-side. Does anyone have a better suggestion for running a multi-user game/app with Flash? Or any refinements/corrections to my scheme? (And yes, I've looked at that PHP Flash remoting thing, and I doubt I need it enough to try something so completely beta that it doesn't have docs.) [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/1250]Cell 1250[/url] :: [url=http://www.alanmacdougall.com]alanmacdougall.com[/url] :: [url=http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/illustrator/index.html]Illustrator tips[/url] Loading...
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