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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Flash remoting isn't a multiuser thing, it's simply a nicer way to communicate between Flash and PHP. Anyways, I've never really liked multiuser apps that rely on a "polling" method to communicate, it just feels messy and regardless of how much data you request it'll likely chew through more bandwidth than a dedicated multiuser server will, and there are a couple of options for this if you're using flash. Firstly, there's the overpriced and highly restricted Flash Multiuser Server MX -- whilst it streaming audio and video along with server side actionscript (application based code as opposed to client based) which is really handy espically for big apps but it's really not worth the money. The other options are well, any socket server you can find. :) I dumped a bunch of links about this over at the GN a little while back and grumble had the Oregano Server ( [url=http://www.oregano-server.org]www.oregano-server.org[/url] ) up and running on a basic Dream Host account, probably your best option. Here's a link to the the GN discussion: [url=http://development.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/thread/2343/]http://development.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/thread/2343/[/url] Additionally, Piper over at the GN wrote a socket server in Perl for the Guru's Flash Chat -- Steve could probably tell you more about all of that seeing as he built the flash side of it. [url=http://dracusis.deviantart.com/] [img]http://www.whatever.net.au/~cameron/files/images/ozone/ArtDecoSiggy.gif[/img] [/url] Edit: Let us know how you get on with this. I'm considering developing a web gaming network lobby system over the holidays which will tie into various bits and peices I have floating around the place and the oregano server is looking to be the best bet for that thus far. [This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 11-09-2003).] Loading...
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