Sending values from one script to anothe

[Anon]

Hello,

Can someone help me with this problem please.

I am trying to send values from a script on my server to a script on another server when a request is made to my script. My script will hit behind the scenes. How can I send/return the values?

And I also want to get values from a script on the other server. I will have to hit the script behind the scenes so that it does not appear on the page. Is there a special function to do this as well?

Thanks.

[Anon]

ok maybe im missunderstanding this question the anser seems to simple, please get back to me.

<?php

$file = fopen("http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml", 'r');
while( !feof($file) ) 
	@$buffer .= fread($file, 4096);

?>

there ya go, now $buffer will have all your returned data. just parse it however you like.

Chris Lee
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[ame12]

Just to build upon Chris' answer (which is very good) you may want to pass arguments to your remote request. So be aware that you'll need the rawurlencode function to make sure the variables are passed URL safe (like converting spaces to %20's). So your URL might look like this:

"http://someserver.com/cgi/req.pl?arg1=".rawurlencode($arg1)."&arg2=".rawurlencode($arg2);

Dave

Pretty cool... and thanks for the link to code examples. One suggestion - reduce font size so that users don't have to scroll as much. I really like small fonts (like on CNet's or Microsoft's sites for instance where everything is compact). Good job.

Dave

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