Calling Home

[manuelgod]

Hi, does anyone know here an easy way to have a script make a "call home" to verify data on another server?

 

I was thinking of using like a POST but the user needs to activate it, so I understand there is another way using fsockopen but don't understand it much.

 

Anyone has a simlar idea? Source code examples would be appreciate it !

 

Thanks in advance guys !

 

 

 

 

[fert]

cURL

[manuelgod]

Could you enlight me in this topic (cURL) ( How to use it, etc.... examples )

 

Thanks for the quick reply

[Cagecrawler]

http://uk2.php.net/curl

[fert]

POST example

$post=array("foo"=>"bar","bar"=>"foo");

$cur=curl_init("http://www.site.com/page.php");
curl_setop($cur,CURLOPT_POST,true);
curl_setopt($cur,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$post);

$value=curl_exec($cur);
curl_close($cur);

I believe that will work

[manuelgod]

Thanks !!!! I am going to try it

[manuelgod]

I am getting an error that seems that these commands require a library

 

Any other way of doing this without any need for external lib's ???

 

Thanks !!

 

[fert]

The only other way would be with Ajax

[manuelgod]

Darn, another language I need to learn

 

Ohh Well... Thanks !

 

 

[Sir William]

You could do fsockopen as well.

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

 

It's what people used before cURL. 

[manuelgod]

Thanks! I was thinking of that too but I am trying to see how it would work by placing a POST and getting a variable from it too

 

 

[utexas_pjm]

You might want to have a look at using a web service architecture like SOAP. 

 

PHP5 http://www.php.net/soap

PHP4 http://dietrich.ganx4.com/nusoap/

 

Best,

 

Patrick

[Attilitus]

Is is possible to use cURL to merely access a url and "get the contents" of it to check against an internal local-script variable?

 

Would this be faster than file_get_contents?

 

Thanks!