Re: possible to get a function from another domain

Hi there! Thanx for the help! And everybody else that helped me with the solution of course! :-) /G @varupiraten.se ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rory Browne" <rory.browne@gmail.com> To: "Jim Moseby" <JMoseby@nrbindustries.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 10:21 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] possible to get a function from another domain I withdraw my information in my earlier post. I was in a cybercafe in a hurry - and didn't have time to consider what was said, nor what I was saying myself. What I said before has little or not merit. You can make an experimental interface, and parse the html without the other domain owners co-operation(although it may be considered rude to do it without his consent). Your interface breaks when he changes his system. You can get him to create an XML page, that you can parse, if you have his co-operation, or you could possibly get him to create an XML-RPC or SOAP interface to his site. On 8/23/05, Jim Moseby <JMoseby@nrbindustries.com> wrote:

[snip] Can I use require with http? My domain: www.varupiraten.se Other domain: www.webshop2.se Does this kind of code work? Code for my domain: <?php require(http://www.webshop2.se/externfunctions.php); $x = getValueFromProduct('Inno AX5000'); //This function retrieves price from webshop2.se ? [/snip] Have you tried it? Really, unless you own the the other domain and have a way to access the data, you really cannot do this without some sort of screen scraping or URL munging. Let us say that you know the product listing for the other domain is something like http://www.webshop2.com/productInfo.php?product=Inno_AX5000 You could retrieve that data and manipulate it. But even if you did, you're giving the other guy the power to break your site. All he has to do is change the URL or the format of the page, and BOOM, your site croaks. So a relevant question is: "Do you have control of the other site, or at least the cooperation of the other site's owner?" JM -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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