Capturing output from remote host

alabonte

I need help.

I have 2 identical systems, each running linux,PHP4.3.1 and thttpd.

Here is what I need to do.
I have a script that runs, that outputs a few lines to the screen.
I need to get this output, from the remote host and write it to a file on the local host.

I've tried include("remote") some PHP code, that would run the script on the remote host (this works, I can echo it back even), but how do I capture the output.

anyone's help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,
Andre

Jalabert

If I am reading you correctly, you should check PHP.net in the manual under 'fread' and 'fopen', I am pretty sure there are some examples for parsing remote files into variables.

alabonte

I've been working on this for days, and the only solution I can find, that seems to work, is eval().

You can open a remote file using fopen, but the file has to be located in the PHP directory. Which it isn't in my case.

You can however do this locally
<?
$output = file(remoteIP/phpscript.php);
eval($output[0]);
echo "localvar = $localvar";
?>

and then on the remote machine
<?phpscript.php

$fp = popen(runscript);
$remotevar = fgets($fp);

//the single quotes are very important!
echo '$localvar='.$remotevar.';';
?>

using eval will evaluate the expression
$localvar = $remotevar;
then you can use $localvar,
on your local machine.

This is the only solution I found.

andre @ performance techologies

diego25

Check out the output buffering functions.

Diego