RE: [PHP-DB] the body of the response

MovieResponder.php can generate -anything- you want... HTML code, a serialize()d array, or anything else... By using fopen() to call http://www.wherever.com/MovieResponder.php and fread() to grab the data to a local variable, you're calling the MovieResponder.php script as if you are simply accessing it through a web browser! Whatever MovieResponder.php outputs-- HTML, etc... Will be saved in your local variable for manipulation! Here's an example... Say your MovieResponder.php file takes the $actor and $year variables, and queries MySQL, then returns a list of movies. ... Let's say you called your script through your web browser as http://www.wherever.com/MovieResponder.php?actor=Somebody&year=1977 And you created MovieResponder.php to give you this response: Movie One 1977 Movie Two 1977 Movie Three 1977 ... If your local PHP script looks like this: $file = fopen("http://www.wherever.com/MovieResponder.php?actor=" . urlencode($actor) . "&year=" . urlencode($year), "r"); $data = fread($file, 10240); fclose($file); ... Then if you called your local script with $actor = Somebody and $year = 1977, when it is called, your $data variable would contain: Movie One 1977 Movie Two 1977 Movie Three 1977 Easy as that! It's a very simple concept. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Sommers [mailto:mrsql.php@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:04 PM To: Matthew Loff; 'PHP DB Mailing List' Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] the body of the response thanks for response, I am curious, how does the http://www.site.com/MovieResponder.php script get the data in the body?. what is the mechanism involved? is this "body" the <body> </php echo $data;<?> </body> of an html page? is this the "body we are talking about or some other body? what is the secret code involved? thanks again, Ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Loff" <matt@willetts.com> To: "'Ken Sommers'" <mrsql.php@worldnet.att.net>; "'PHP DB Mailing List'" <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 12:53 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] the body of the response > > > The "body" of the response is the data that the > http://www.site.com/MovieResponder.php script would produce. > > The fread() call that I meantioned before would read -all- of this > data into a variable. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Sommers [mailto:mrsql.php@worldnet.att.net] > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:52 AM > To: PHP DB Mailing List > Subject: [PHP-DB] the body of the response > > > PHP manual says: > fopen > fopen -- Opens file or URL > Description > int fopen (string filename, string mode [, int use_include_path]) > > If filename begins with "http://" (not case > sensitive), an HTTP 1.0 > connection is opened to the specified server, the page is requested > using the HTTP GET method, and a file pointer is returned to the > beginning of the body of the response. > -------- > can someone explain the clause: > > "and a file pointer is returned to the beginning of the > body of the response." > > can someone explain and describe what this "body" is? > > can query results be put in this 'body',,if so how? > > thanks, > > Ken > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net >