Sockets and PHP?

Anon

If I open a raw socket to a server, is it possible to pass variables to a PHP script, run it, and then read the results off the socket? I know how to open the socket and read anything coming back down the stream, but I don't know how I would go about running a PHP script without opening a browser. Any help? My goal is to make MySQL queries with a program that can open raw sockets. Using PHP to do it sounded easier, but I would even go for a dll solution or something. Any thoughts?

-Drew

reagent

sure, it depends on how you want to trigger your script.

if you do a get, just trigger it by sending a header as such

GET /script.php?var1=val&var2=val HTTP/1.1
host: your.hostname.here

if you plan on doing a POST operation, try following the example(s) in this thread:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=140419&loc=0&thread=140419

Anon

This might be what I am looking for as well. please help.

I am trying to get the returned values from a cfm script at another server and use those scripts on my php scripts without calling the browser (behind the scenes).

How do I open a socket to the other server and get the returned values from the script.