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Tutor needed with learning how to Stream Database information into SL

Keira Moxie
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Join date: 17 Dec 2005
Posts: 47
10-31-2008 10:13
Hi I need a teacher! And I maye be explaining this completely wrong... but I need to learn how to link information streamed from a URL to produce and inworld concept based on RL -real-time information (ie traffic information streamed from local websites into a visual map display in world.)

Yes this sounds complicated but NOAA has done it with their weather map and I am very interested in learning how to link to a database from SL. Anyone interested in teaching me? I will pay well for this help. Thanks :)
Hewee Zetkin
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Join date: 20 Jul 2006
Posts: 2,702
10-31-2008 22:12
I don't have the schedule to tutor directly, but I can tell you that if you come up with specific questions about how to achieve your goal, this would be a very good place to post them and get answers, suggestions, and examples. Here are a couple links to help get you started:

http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=llHTTPRequest
http://www.lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=http_response
Talla Slade
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Join date: 16 Jun 2007
Posts: 57
10-31-2008 22:26
From: Keira Moxie
Hi I need a teacher! And I maye be explaining this completely wrong... but I need to learn how to link information streamed from a URL to produce and inworld concept based on RL -real-time information (ie traffic information streamed from local websites into a visual map display in world.)

Yes this sounds complicated but NOAA has done it with their weather map and I am very interested in learning how to link to a database from SL. Anyone interested in teaching me? I will pay well for this help. Thanks :)


I am not a teacher Keira but I can say you will need to get your head around some rather advanced programming both in LSL, MySQL and PHP.

I have acheived comms with my server but I used Miva Script and, unless your server has the Miva Empresor engine you can't use it so php has to handle it.

The LSL part is relatively easy and I used a for loop to break down the response into a list and saved each to a variable for use in my scripts.

But I am not sure exactly what you want to do.