Two birds with one stone?

[webchef]

I have this website that i update constantly.. uploading pictures and inputing new table rows...

i use forms to do this, and upload the pictures using an ftp program.. im rebuilding the site to be more dynamic and to have a much better administration section...

now i know i can use php to facilitate the upload of files and pictures (i'll use it for uploading pictures that go with news articles)

but here is the question. is it possible to use one form (located on my local server) to update my local server AND the remote server where the site is hosted, through one click?

right now i fill out two different forms with the same information to update the site. there must be a better way

thanks for the help.

[Mike]

[twopeak]

of course it is possible...
I never dit it but...

if you want to update things in an sql database, you need to open the connections (both) but remember them in a variable...
Later when you make a query, you have to say with what connection you will work.
If you think this a little bit more, you can make your own functions, that will insert in both databases.

For files, you just have to open the files, write to them, and close them.
For this too, you will have to write a function if you only want 1 line of writing to the file
you will get a function that first opens the first file on your local computer, write to it, closes it and then opens the file on the server, writes to it and closes it...

[xblue]

you can't write to files on remote servers as far as I know (think about security), but there are the ftp functions to transfer files from server to server:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.ftp.php