# PHP 5 Sockets with Flash 8 - Advanced

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 31, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-5-sockets-with-flash-8-advanced/214775 "2007-01-31T22:31:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ace3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Ace3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ace3)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-5-sockets-with-flash-8-advanced/214775/1 "2007-01-31T22:31:56Z")

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Hi, I used the tutorial on this site to create the chat room using sockets and got it running. (btw great tutorial, thanks!) At the end of the tutorial ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/php5sockets\_flash8\_6.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/php5sockets_flash8_6.htm)) it talks about making a parser for xml to parse data sent from the flash file. I am wondering how to do this.

I wan’t to make it so the people on the chat can give themselfs a name by entering “name \<thier name\>”

so the parsing would look something like this?  
[COLOR=#0000ff]\<[/COLOR][COLOR=#000050]CHATROOM[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000050]ACTIONS[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#666666]“set\_name”[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000050]Name[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#666666]“blah blah”[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]/\>[/COLOR]  
[COLOR=#0000ff][/COLOR]  
(If I ever figure this out eventually I want to make more actions but thought this was a good place to start.)

I am not sure how to parse info that users enter. Any help will be greatly [SIZE=2]  
[SIZE=2][SIZE=2]appreciated.  
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