From: Daevid Vincent
Date: November 25 2003 8:57am
Subject: RE: Searching for a realtime progress bar that uses mySQL and Flash?
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 I disagree, you can restrict access to SELECT only and plus any normal form
on a web page has access to a DB in much more insecure ways (SQL injection,
etc.), and as I said, it must be a 'real-time' progress meter without
refreshing the .php/.html page.

Javascript is not able to query the DB.

A Java applet is my alternative choice, but java is kind of pokey,
especially to load, and not so good with the graphics side of things.

Daevid Vincent
http://daevid.com

> -----Original Message----- 
> Flash is executed in the client. Even if possible to connect to a db,
> it would be a bad idea to let a client connect there.
> As long as your visitors have the plugin i would call 
> Flash+server-side-script the best solution for that. 
> Another one was JavaScript or Java connecting to a script.