Connection between a server

[vbphplearner]

First of all, welcome me to the community.

Am new to php(but a pro in vb). Am trying to make a script that will connect to a certain server with a certain port. And once it connects the server will send back a data like 'ok login'. And then i want the php script to send 'myusername'. Once the server recives it, it will send back 'Send Password'. And i then i want the script to send something like 'mypassword'. And the server will send back 'Loged In'. After this has been done i want to print all of the data that has been recived from the server from 'myusername' to 'loged in'. I just want a simple example.

thanks

ps. i hope this isn't too much, sorri

[Weedpacket]

Sounds like you'd want [man]fsockopen[/man]; open a socket to the other server and use fread and fwrite to do protocol back and forth.

[vbphplearner]

iight i learned some stuff from the site u gave me. Here what i have right now

<?
if($fp = fsockopen ("Server1.server.com", 3268, &$errno, &$errstr, 3)){
echo "server in online<br>";
}else{
 echo "server is offline";
}
$indata = fread($fp,1024);
 echo $indata;
$fp = null;
?>

And i recive 'server is online' and 'ok login'. Heres my next problem. I only want to send 'myusername' if the server sends back 'ok login', but not before.
Can someone please help me?

thanks

[vbphplearner]

ok i added a if then function and i have this so far

<? 
if($fp = fsockopen ("Server1.server.com", 3268, &$errno, &$errstr, 3)){ 
echo "server in online<br>"; 
}else{ 
 echo "server is offline"; 
} 
$indata = fread($fp,1024); 
 echo $indata; 

if($indata = "ok login"){
fwrite($fp,"myusername\r\n");
$indata = fread($fp,1024);
 echo $indata;
}

$fp = null; 
?> 

Am doing something wrong because the script sends 'myusername' even if didn't recive 'ok login'

thanks

[laserlight]

if($indata = "ok login"){

you made a typo, should use "==" instead of "="