Communicating with a server?

[MySQL_Narb]

I just finished up a PayPal IPN script for a website we're working on; however, when a user buys "points", we need to somehow get it to the game server (where they can buy in-game items with there new virtual points). Let's assume this server is a Minecraft server. How would I, with PHP, be able to send something along the lines of a packet to say: "Hey, so and so now has 200 points. Update their point count."

Edited June 21, 2013 by MySQL_Narb

[trq]

There are all sorts of ways of doing this dependant on the protocol the server speaks. If it's simply http then you can use curl though I prefer to use higher level libraries like Guzzle. But yeah, the first thing you need to figure out is what does the server expect these requests to look like.

[MySQL_Narb]

There are all sorts of ways of doing this dependant on the protocol the server speaks. If it's simply http then you can use curl though I prefer to use higher level libraries like Guzzle. But yeah, the first thing you need to figure out is what does the server expect these requests to look like.

 

I need to be communicating through the TCP/IP protocol.

[trq]

fsockopen is probably all your going to need.