PHP and UDP

[stereoactive]

Sorry if it's been covered, I tried to search, but to no avail.

My question is this:
Is it possible to have a device using UDP broadcast certain ascii information to a static IP and then have a php program display the ascii information in a webpage verbatim?

Thanks

[dalecosp]

Probably.

Write a socket server in PHP that listens on port XXXX for UDP packets.

Have the server write the received data to a file.

Have a PHP script read the file and spew out the HTML.

A tutorial on basic socket server writing is at Zend.com IIRC, in the "Tutorials" section.

[stereoactive]

thanks

sounds pretty far over my head, but at least it's a start!
also, whould this require sql?

[dalecosp]

Well, depends on if data needs to be stored, and if so, how you decide to do it....