Flash

In an attempt to get my mind off of school, I wrote a client/server Flash based bandwidth monitor and stuck it on my site. If anyone competent wants a copy to add features, drop me a line.

The way it works is:

1. A PHP script dynamically generates a flash movie using the ming library.
   
2. The movie contains some ActionScript which connects to a XML server on the machine hosting the web page.
   
3. The XML server on the web server then hands out bandwidth statistics in one second intervals in the form of XML objects.
   
4. The flash movie cracks open the XML objects as it receives them and displays the contents.