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
you can use urlloader to load data from the server but you may also need serer-side code (unless you're hard-coding file names).