Re: Send and Receive XML

In order to do it real time I would post to your site grab the info, format the url and use a header() to send them back to the VB site - the VB site can then format the page and process the variables. Having a port open with some app that you threw together (not sure about your C skills) just sitting around screams security risk to me (especially in B2B). If you MUST do XML then have the VB server turn the user input/data into an XML "file" in a variable (like $send .= '<userID>joestump</userID>'."\n") and then POST that variable to your PHP site - your PHP site will then explode("\n",$posted_xml_var); run THAT through the xml parsers in PHP, instead of using while(feof()){ do a while(list($key,$val) = each($array_of_xml)){ and pass $val as your $data (using my PHP Doc as an example). Your PHP server will parse it and then either POST back to your VB server (I think you can do this with a header()) or just do a GET back to your VB server. Either way it's a sticky situation :O) --Joe On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:42:28AM +1000, Samantha Savvakis wrote: > hi Joe, > > Thanks for replying! I think I've actually read your XML howto :) I really > like the PHPBuilder site. > > Anyway.. I have implemented an XML parser, had no real drama with that. > I'm just not understanding how the XML data transfer is going to happen > between two systems. We want to do real-time stuff. The user at the VB PC is > going to click a button in their program to retrieve data from my server. It > will have in the XML file, the data that it requires to retrieve. I'm going > to then receive the XML file, parse it, retrieve the right data and send it > back to the VB program. > > I have written C++ stuff to handle this, having a socket program at a > particular port and waits for data etc. I just thought that B2B is so much > more advanced that there has to be a better way. I know SOAP is trying to > open this up now, but even after reading one book on SOAP I'm still a bit > confused :) > > Thanks again for replying, > Sam > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Joe Stump [mailto:joe@earth.care2.com] > > Sent: Thursday, 5 October 2000 09:31 > > To: Samantha Savvakis > > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Send and Receive XML > > > > > > You could read my XML parsing HOWTO on phpbuilder :O) > > > > here is the link: > > > > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/joe20000907.php3 > > > > If you have any questions you can email me privately - unless others are > > interested as well. > > > > My opinion is that your VB server should do a datadump into XML > > and your *NIX > > server should then wget every so often - if you have to have it > > live have your > > VB server POST a variable that is in fact XML, explode the > > variable by "\n" > > and parse it real time (that would kick ass - haven't done it, > > but I know it's > > possible) > > > > Just my $0.02! > > > > --Joe > > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:23:47AM +1000, Samantha Savvakis wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm not really sure if this is the right list to be sending > > this to, but I > > > have a few questions about how to send and receive XML files > > and don't know > > > where else to write to. > > > > > > We are implementing a B2B solution between my company and another and I > > > would like to do all the data transfer using XML, rather than some > > > proprietary file format. > > > > > > The other company will be using VB on client PC and I'm using > > PHP and C++ on > > > a unix web server. How would the PHP receive the XML? Perhaps > > I'm doing this > > > all wrong. Maybe I should just be going back to good old TCP sockets and > > > just send and receive data a particular port. > > > > > > I envisiged that somehow the VB application will make a HTTP > > request to my > > > PHP page through the web server and somehow with some magic, > > send me the XML > > > file. I have heard that to send an file, you place the file in the HTTP > > > Headers? Is that correct? > > > > > > Anyone got any idea of where I can get help on this sort of thing? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Sam > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > /*****************************\ > > * Joe Stump * > > * www.Care2.com * > > * Office: 650.328.0198 * > > * Extension: 122 * > > \*****************************/ > > http://www.miester.org/Joe/Stump/Joe_Stump_resume.html > > > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > > Version: 3.12 > > GB/E/IT d- s++:++ a? C++++ UL++$ P+ L+++$ E----! W+++$ > > N+@ o? K? w---! O-@ M+@ V-! P(++) PE(+) Y+@ PGP+++@ t+@ > > 5? 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