Re: Connect local app to a web app

Alpár Török wrote: > 2009/2/5 Alpár Török <torokalpar@gmail.com> > >> >> 2009/2/5 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> >> >> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:24:45PM -0200, Jônatas Zechim wrote: >>>> Hi there, i'm here again, but now with another doubt. >>>> >>>> What's the best way to connect a local app write in php or php-gtk to a >>> web >>>> app writen in php. >>>> The database is MySql, and i need to do this connection every 3s to >>> check >>>> data, get the data back and save into localhost database. >>>> >>> If you have control of the server, you can just set this up in a bash >>> script, using mysql commands, which connect to the remote and then then >>> local databases. I'm talking about cron running the script periodically. >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> Paul M. Foster >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >> You can set up a web service using XML-RPC or JSON-RPC , you don't >> necessarily need a db >> > PS: I meant you don't need the db locally > except for the fact that the op said he wanted to *save* it to a *localhost database*. >> -- >> Alpar Torok >> > > > -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare