1 Reply Latest reply: Jan 3, 2012 6:59 AM by kglad RSS

    connecting a kiosk to a server - help out a newbie!

    saariko Community Member

      well no exactly a newbie, but sort of

       

      hey all

       

      i am self-taught and i have pretty good as3 and mxml skills and have worked with Flash Pro and Flex, but only for my own stuff at home. i have only done local AIR stuff that don't require sending and getting data from a server

       

      now someone has asked if i could build him a kiosks/server system, and i want to dive into that

      the kiosks would be deployed in stores and have touchscreens displaying pictures, movies, banners and accept user control and data - no problem here

       

      i plan to build his remote controlling software in Flex and the kiosk AIR apps in Flex or Flash pro.

      the kiosks should periodically connect to the server to see if updates are available  and download swf, jpeg and movie (mp4? flv?) files to the local filesystem (no live streaming is needed)

      also, user created data (forms only) should be sent to the server - i guess xml

       

      since i have no server side or server connection experience could you help me out here - what to investigate further into:

       

      URLloader?

      Sockets?

      HTTPrequests?

      WEBrequests?

      RemoteObects?

       

      can all this be in as3 alone or do i need stuff like php also?

      also, would i be able in the controlling flex app to determine if specific kiosks are offline?

       

      thanx a million,

      Saar