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Probably not the correct words in the subject but I'll try to explain. I have software in c++ that sends data to a php file on my website. I have all the connections in place since it echoes back an ok to my code. Problem is the data portion is not being read by the php. I dont know how to reference it.

 

this is what I send:

data ="Hello World";

len = strlen(data);

 

POST /mydir/getmessage.php HTTP/1.1\n

Host: www.mysite.com:80\n

User-Agent: MyAgent/1.0 \n

Accept: */*\n

Content-Length: len \n

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8\n\n"

 

data;

 

php file on the server

 

<?php

printf("RETURN: OK %s",$Data);

?>

 

This sends back OK but not an echo of the data. Should be OK Hello World.

Can someone explain how to read the data file being sent? I would like to add a few things like name,password,etc to the data I send but not sure how to index or split it out on the php side.

 

 

 

 

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@thorpe

the data is urlencoded before I send it

 

your example returns OK as well probably because it's not parsed at the php level.

 

Here is the received data

no return HTTP/1.1 200 OK

no return Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:22:24 GMT

no return Server: Apache

no return Transfer-Encoding: chunked

no return Content-Type: text/html

no return

no return 47

no return

no return

no return <HTML>

no return <HEAD>

no return </HEAD>

no return <BODY>

OK    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< THIS IS WHAT IS PERTENIENT

no return </BODY>

no return </HTML>

 

What I need to confirm is that the data I sent is actually received.

How does php parse the input. Say I sent a data like

data = "Megaman+foofoo9";

there are 2 words in the data so in php

 

$name = firstword;

$pass = secondword;

 

I should be able to print, or echo these values to prove they got parsed.

 

@boo_lolly

This data has to be sent to a webstie and parsed there for insertion into a database or checks against a database.

 

thanks for the reply...

@boo_lolly

 

I have a program running on my computer at the house.

when it executes a function in that c++ code calls my website and is supposed to deposit information

 

If the xml of which you speak is on the website, how does it get launched only when my program runs?

If the xml is local to my machine then again it will have to contact my website on its own and send the standard html string which causes the same problem.

 

What do you propose?

 

the XML is not on your website. the XML document is created dynamically everytime the C++ application runs. the data that the C++ application creates will be stored in an XML document. then you can send the XML document to the website.

 

if you google XML and read a little about it, you'll soon find that it is one of, if not, the most efficient way of transfering data from one medium to another. it doesn't matter where it starts or ends. plus, it's a really good thing to know XML. it's the future.

 

questions:

what does the C++ app do exactly? what kind of data does it generate? what is it for?

So now I have a xml formatted by c++ then I have to somehow send it to my website dynamicly. No prob, now I have to tell my php to act on it, parse the data then store the info in the database.

sounds like alot of extra work to do that as opposed to sending the data in a simple post since Im inside the winsock already and the post method has provisions to send the data in a single call the way im doing it now. Data sent is an ip address and a name. 2 pieces of info should be trivial in php but dont know how to parse the input message to get the 2 bits of data.

 

thanks for reply

 

ah I smell some magic!

 

no return <HTML>

no return <HEAD>

no return </HEAD>

no return <BODY>

no return Array

no return (

no return    [data] => HYPERKAT    <<<<< THIS IS THE DATA I SENT!

no return )

no return 

no return </BODY>

no return </HTML>

no return

no return

no return 0

 

Sorry for being such a noob on this, now to extract it as a single var and put it in the file

Thanks for reply!

What exactly is producing this output?

 

no return <HTML>
no return <HEAD>
no return </HEAD>
no return <BODY>
no return Array
no return (
no return     [data] => HYPERKAT    <<<<< THIS IS THE DATA I SENT!
no return )
no return 
no return </BODY>
no return </HTML>
no return
no return
no return 0

 

Can we see the output of...

 

<?php

  print_r($_POST);

?>

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