Re: XML/PHP web service

Phillip Baker <phillip@freewolf.net> wrote: >Greetings all, > >I am looking for some options here. > >I am in need of creating a service on our web server that will always >be >available and automated. >It will accept an XML file. > >I will be checking to see if the XML file is valid and then passing it >on >to another server. >But I need to accept this file without using a submit form. >I have never done anything like this and looking for ideas. > >I am using a lamp environment and looking for suggestions. > >I am looking to set this up so that our vendors can set up scripts to >automatically post XML files to our servers. > >Blessed Be > >Phillip > >"In the Jim Crow South, for example, government failed and indeed >refused >to protect blacks from extra-legal violence. Given our history, it's >stunning we fail to question those who would force upon us a total >reliance >on the state for defense." >-- Robert J. Cottrol Just set up your php script as if it were accepting input from a form submission. All you're doing is not showing the form. Imagine it like a form set up on someone else's server with the action attribute pointing to your script. Ashley Sheridan http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.