Re: the body of the response

MR.Loff, I see the concept.. but i still don;t see the secret code. for this process: And you created MovieResponder.php to give you this response: Movie One 1977 Movie Two 1977 Movie Three 1977 how does it GIVE????..is there a php function called GIVE()? where does the Give() function Give it's data? does it have to give in here? <body> <? php Give() ?> </body> what gives? what is the secret code? I looked up Give() in the php manual..no such function.as give(). what is the secret code? --- MovieResponder.php can generate -anything- you want... HTML code, a serialize()d array, or anything else... suppose I Need MovieResponder.php to generate an array.. how do I "generate" it ? what does "generate" mean in PHP? does it mean an assignment statement? does an assignment statement GENERATE an array? or maybe an Echo statement to the <body> GENERATEs an array? what is the secret code Generate() is not a valid php function either. what is the secret code,?,and why is it secret? Ken 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 1:34 PM Subject: 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 > > >