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So I am thinking about creating a multiplayer game and I was wanting to use php because I already have a php server. Is it possible to make a socket server that will be able to handle a actionscript multiplayer game. The game won’t be big. so we wont need any huge amount of data pushing through. just some software that is probably reliable enough to run a multiplayer game.
PHP is clearly not a solution when it comes to socket server. It’s simply not meant for that kind of usage.
If you really want to go multiplayer, SmartFox ( http://www.smartfoxserver.com/) offers a professional solution when it comes to Flash. After that developing a small socket server in a proper language is not that complicated, and the possibility are endless (Python, Java, C#, C, C++, Erlang, Go, Erlang, …). It really depends on what kind of game you’re want to do.
PHP could be eligible as a solution in case of turn by turn type game, you could simply handle it as a RESTful service (sending back and forward the game state by http).