Re: Re: PHP integration with ASP

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks a million!!! /T on 1/25/04 18:24, Ben Ramsey at br@benandliz.com wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Since the action of your form is the ASP script, it will always take > your user to the ASP script and not return results to the PHP > application, which I think it what you want to do, if I am not mistaken. > > I found a link in the manual (http://us4.php.net/http) to someone's > function for peforming posts to an external site and retrieving the > returned data. In this way, you could set the action of your form to > another PHP script on the same server that would then use this http_post > function to post to the external ASP script. The ASP script's results > would be sent back to your PHP script and returned by the http_post > function for you to use. I hope this is what you're looking for. > > The function is located at: > http://nf.wh3rd.net/projects/http.inc/ > > > Info@Best-It wrote: > | I am working on an integration between my PHP site and an ASP site > with XML. > | The basic flow is this: I generate a request by placing XML into the > value > | portion of an input tag called ³REQUEST² the action is the url of the > remote > | ASP server which receives the request. It then returns a form with > the same > | ³REQUEST² input tag with the XML as the value. My problem is getting the > | XML that is posted to the form. The confusing thing is that once I > receive > | the XML data I am no longer in my site. The header information changes to > | the URL that sent the data. > | > | I am not sure how to capture the data that is returned by the server. > I have > | a procedure that puts XML data into my db from file. But I'm not sure how > | to get this result into a file. > | > | The ASP example that I am changing to PHP is Request.Form("Results") > | basically it gets the form's Results variable... How can you do that > in PHP > | when nothing has been sent to the server?? Any insight would be very > | helpful... > | > | My code is below: > | > | Code that generates the request: > | > | $doc = domxml_new_doc('1.0'); > | $top_element = $doc->add_child($doc->create_element('ExchangeRequest')); > | > | $login_data_node = > | $top_element->add_child($doc->create_element('LoginData')); > | $login_data_node->set_attribute("UserName", "uname"); > | $login_data_node->set_attribute("Password", "pass"); > | > | $request_node = $top_element->add_child($doc->create_element('Request')); > | $request_node->set_attribute("Type", "RetrieveNewSearches"); > | > | //echo "<pre>Comment: "; print(htmlentities($doc->html_dump_mem(true))); > | echo "</pre>"; die; > | > | $xml = $doc->html_dump_mem(); > | $ns = strtr($xml, "\"", "'"); > | > | //echo "<pre>Comment: "; print($ns); echo "</pre>"; die; > | > | $html = "<html> > | <body> > | <form name=\"Exchange\" method=\"POST\" > | action=\"https://remoteaspserver/action.asp\"> > | <input type=\"text\" size=150 name=\"Request\" > | value=\"$ns\"></input> > | <br><br> > | <input type=\"submit\" > value=\"Submit\"></input> > | </form> > | </body> > | </html>"; > | > | print($html); > | > | > | Code received by server: > | > | <html> > | <body> > | <input type="text" name="Results" value="<?xml > version='1.0'?> > | <Results RequestSuccessful='True'> > | <Searches NumberIncluded='1'> > | <Search Type='data'> > | <ID>1</ID> > | <Comments/> > | </Search> > | </Searches> > | </Results> > | "></input> > | </body> > | </html> > | > | > | Thanks for your help! > | /Tim Best > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFAFF4/IcIs3CP5DxwRAsQDAJ9qYdQ5l4B/e0lurUVb49GD0m42lwCeOUjO > qBoYMiC62Hf2VgwgLTWH2vg= > =t6ej > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----