Re: XML/PHP web service

I was wondering how that would work and if it might be that simple. How would I inform the client to hit the page (script)? 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 On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>wrote: > > > 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. >