On Fri, January 26, 2007 5:28 pm, Skip Evans wrote: > We have a new project that will require pretty > robust communication between Flash and PHP, and > I've begun Googling and came across Actionscript here: > > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flashmx_php.html > > I wonder if anyone knows anything about running > actionscript on LinuxFfirfox machines. My install > of Firefox on Debian/Fluxbox runs Flash okay, but > not the sample app on this page. Let me put it this way... I've stopped installing Flash on my non-Windows boxes, because I'm tired of the browser crashing when I visit Flash sites, especially if I'm silly enough to leave a Flash page "up" in the browser and walk away, and it sucks away all the RAM and brings the whole box to a screeching halt. I may be the only goofball left with a 128M desktop on a 450MHz AMD box as his day-to-day workhorse, but there it is... I've *never* had a good experience with Flash on Linux, ever. If they ever get Flash 9 for Linux out of beta, I might give it a try... But, honestly, at this point, I'm not missing it all that much. It's pretty rare for any useful unique content to actually be in Flash. In fact, so far, I've always been able to Google and get what I want without Flash. Linux users are stuck with Flash 6 (or 7, for modern glibc) for now, and they're on Flash 10 on many sites, with horrible BC issues. Oh, and there's some pretty ugly security vulnerability in Flash < 9 which caused Rasmus to declare that the Internet won't be secure until everybody upgrades... Gave me a chuckle, though I have no idea what he was actually talking about. Hey, but other than the memory leaks, crashes, backwards incompatibilities, and just plain flakiness, it looks real purty. > The page above had a zip file that may need to be > downloaded to your Windows machine, but my Windows > machine ran it fine. > > Anyone have any experience with PHP/Actionscript > on Linux? You may also want to ask around on the Ming list, where PHP and Actionscript routinely interact, and where PHP itself is used to generate the Flash movie, so you could embed any PHP values you wanted into it. That was actually kind of fun, though I have so little graphics skills it was ugly as all get out. Somebody with mad graphics skills and PHP could do some really cool stuff with this though. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
