Please tell me this is possible...thesis depends on it

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Goal is to develop a multiplayer cross media game for the iPhone. Two issues I am seeing with this.

1.) App needs to be able to send user’s location to a php server. That server will then need to be able to blast out all other user’s locations in the same game back to the user.

2.) From there the idea is to have a google map view that regularly updates (say every 5 seconds) with other users’ locations as pushpins and the current user’s location as blue dots.

Then need to compare if the current user’s location is within a certain distance to any other user’s (pushpins) location. If it is it triggers a game event to occur.

Does this sound like something Corona SDK can do. I have been researching a bit and it seems like a mixed bag. Creating a google map view with a user’s location seems easy. Making this map dynamic with other user’s location based on information sent from a PHP server seems a bit more difficult and maybe even impossible given the restraints of the SDK. [import]uid: 176907 topic_id: 33357 reply_id: 333357[/import]

#2

addMarker will let you add pins to the map.
network.request will let you send requests to a PHP server (and read the responses).

You can compute the distance yourself with the map. (Use the latitude/longitude and things like the Earth’s radius or circumference.) Or there might be a Google web API that already does this (use network.request).

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#3

addMarker will let you add pins to the map.
network.request will let you send requests to a PHP server (and read the responses).

You can compute the distance yourself with the map. (Use the latitude/longitude and things like the Earth’s radius or circumference.) Or there might be a Google web API that already does this (use network.request).

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