Lot's of options. Will this access be across the internet, or behind a firewall?
Are you concerned about securing your information from prying eyes? You seem to be focusing on a script that runs on the remote machine, does this machine have a web server as well, or will you be executing PHP as a standalone process? I am taking it for granted that you have PHP installed on the remote machine? Do you have access to commands like REXEC, RCP, RSH, SSH on your local machine, and are the required daemons running on the remote machine? What platforms are involved at each end? Just a few questions that may have an impact on your solution... Warren Vail -----Original Message----- From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 2:19 PM To: 'Jeff McKeon' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Communicating with remote server Well, I know how to run MySQL queries and connect to the db and things like that. But I would like to be able to connect to a remote site (ex: http://my-site.com/functions.php). Here I would like to run functions from the remote functions.php file and have it connect to it's own server's db. Then I want to be able to have certain information sent back to me. Maybe sockets is the best way to do this, but I don't know much about them. Any advice anyone? Matt -----Original Message----- From: Jeff McKeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 5:14 PM To: Matt Palermo Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Communicating with remote server Matt Palermo wrote: > I am writing a desktop application using PHP-GTK. I would > like this program to be able to connect to a remote server, > call some functions that I specify, and return the right > information (most likely from a MySQL db). I have access to > the server, so I can create any and all functions that I > want, but I don't know how to connect to the remote server > page and get all the results. I am new to cross-server > comunication programming, so if anyone knows of a very > detailed and easy to learn tutorial please send me the link. > I would appreciate any help you are willing to offer. > > Thanks, > > Matt For mysql queries I use this... function db_connect($dbhost,$dbname,$dbuser,$dbpass) { global $MYSQL_ERRNO, $MYSQL_ERROR; $link = mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbname,$dbuser,$dbpass); if (!$link_id) { $MYSQL_ERRNO = 0; $MYSQL_ERROR = "Connection failed to the host $dbhost"; return 0; } else if(empty($dbname) && !mysql_select_db($dbname)) { $MYSQL_ERRNO = mysql_errno(); $MYSQL_ERROR = mysql_error(); return 0; } else return $link; } $link_id=db_connect(dbname,db_user_name,db_user_pass); Mysql_select_db(dbname, $link_id); $query="select * from tablename"; $result=mysql_query($query); While ($query_data=mysql_fetch_row($result)) { echo $query_data[0],$query_data[1],$query_data[2],etc } Jeff -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
