Re: Re: the body of the response

In article <00c801c10e3f$758ba8a0$b943500c@zeospantera>, mrsql.php@worldnet.att.net (Ken Sommers) wrote: > are you saying that i can grab the output of your echo() statements in YOUR > PHP script by Fopen()ing your URL Yes, you can use it that way. > IF so,, is this done much? It's done. I can't quantify how often. But it's not considered usual or unorthodox, if that's what you're asking. > or are there easier more stable less error-prone > ways to access remote databases? A) If you're trying to access a remote DBMS with fopen(), then the probability is very high that's your whole strategy is bass-ackwards. So if that's what's behind these questions, your confusion is understandable--time to do a major re-think (and/or, as Ken has already suggested, spend more time with a PHP manual). B) What makes you think fopen is unstable or error-prone? I'd expect any connection to a remote server to have a higher risk of errors than a local connection, but you seem to believe that fopen() itself introduces new opportunities for errors above-and-beyond the remote connection itself. That I would not expect to be the case. -- CC