How to make PHP call a remote Script

[johnny]

I have a remote script on a local network and I need to make Web App in
PHP, call this remote script on a different machine. How do I do this?

Many Thanks.

[seaside]

Re: How to make PHP call a remote Script


johnny schrieb:

I have a remote script on a local network and I need to make Web App in
PHP, call this remote script on a different machine. How do I do this?

This way, for example:

$viart_xml = fsockopen("www. server.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 12);

fputs($viart_xm l, "GET /aScript.xml HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($viart_xm l, "Host: www. server.com\r\n" );
fputs($viart_xm l, "Referer: http://www. server.com\r\n" );
fputs($viart_xm l, "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows NT 5.1)\r\n\r\n");

This may work too, but not using PHP 4.4.2
[http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36017]:

$viart_xml = fopen("http://www.viart.com/viart_shop.xml" , "r");

[Erwin Moller]

Re: How to make PHP call a remote Script

seaside wrote:

>
johnny schrieb:
>

>I have a remote script on a local network and I need to make Web App in
>PHP, call this remote script on a different machine. How do I do this?

>
This way, for example:
>
$viart_xml = fsockopen("www. server.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 12);
>
fputs($viart_xm l, "GET /aScript.xml HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($viart_xm l, "Host: www. server.com\r\n" );
fputs($viart_xm l, "Referer: http://www. server.com\r\n" );
fputs($viart_xm l, "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows NT 5.1)\r\n\r\n");
>
This may work too, but not using PHP 4.4.2
[http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36017]:
>
$viart_xml = fopen("http://www.viart.com/viart_shop.xml" , "r");

Much easier is using fopen("http://www.example.com/somescript.php" ) if the
http-wrapper is enabled.

http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

If PHP has decided that filename specifies a registered protocol, and that
protocol is registered as a network URL, PHP will check to make sure that
allow_url_fopen is enabled. If it is switched off, PHP will emit a warning
and the fopen call will fail.

If you need to send information in a POST too, have a look at CURL.

http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[hackajar@gmail.com]

Re: How to make PHP call a remote Script

Above stuff is good, but just remember, when you call a remote script
the web server it is running on WILL process the PHP in script, this is
NOT the same as doing a "require_once() ", "Include()" call locally.

Hackajar
johnny wrote:

I have a remote script on a local network and I need to make Web App in
PHP, call this remote script on a different machine. How do I do this?
>
Many Thanks.