Real-Time communication between PHP and Flex application

Question

I have a Flex/AIR application communicating with a PHP server application. Recently my client requested real-time-like connectivity between the applications to replace what we c

Answer 1

Actually you can push data from the server to the client, when using Flash sockets (which means bypassing the http protocol). If you cannot use sockets you can use things like polling, long polling or http streaming. However it will take a while to do everything by hand, so I suggest looking at a product which already has this features. WebOrb for PHP is one of them, and from what I know is free.