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PHP 5 Sockets with Flash 8
by obiAdmin (raymond): 30 September 2006Ever wanted to build a real-time chat room or build a high speed multiplayer game but couldn’t figure out how to do that? Sockets are what your missing! PHP sockets are indeed very nice to use when creating real-time chat applications or to build an instantaneous multiplayer game. Unfortunately most people do not use them because they are hard to grasp. In this tutorial, I will be showing how to write a simple PHP5 socket shell script for Apache servers, and how to set up a Flash file to connect to it.
Here is a snap shot of the chat room you’ll be creating in this tutorial: