Re: FLASH: Flash, CGI and e-commerce

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Richard,


"Any chance you could expand on this a bit more?

What parts are you doing in Flash, and what part are created by the

CGI?"


OK then. The whole concept and front end is done in Flash4 so all the

user sees are Flashed pages. It has three main access points, Search and

Query, Order and Admin. All forms are Flash forms that send and retrieve

data via post. CGI parts are only for the db handling routines and sql

queries.

Some areas still in research include 'pseudo dynamic' generation of

Flash content based on user interaction and query results. First tests

are very good as I already said. The test server is running linux+apache

with the mysql database on the same server all running on an old normal

pentium 150Mhz class cpu with 24Gb storage and 128Mb memory. Current

configuration allows serving something in excess of 10000 simultaneous

connections according to first load tests. Head to head comparison with

same functionality done in html shows a 20% increase in overall speed

from the user point of view and a 45% decrease in traffic as the Flash

solution requires less overall data to travel to the browser.


Nigel


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