Need help to make a script for running a php... (??)

leroy_brown

The problem is simple: I need to make data visible on another site, but I dont want them to access my database...

Simply, there is a box on a webpage with dinamic data, that I wish to publish on a partner site.

I think that the problem is so common, that should be an easy solution. If anyone knows where I can find it, please help!!!

p.ex. in the PHPBB the "topics anywhere" MOD, does exactly the same: it makes a "Java script". The script shows the 10 latest topic of the forum. The script can be on any other site, and will work.

I have the php code that show the data, but only if it runs on my server. How can I rewrite it for a script like that?

I am not a programmer, but this would be very important to solve somehow, so any help is very much appreciated!!!!

ZibingsCoder

If they have the ability to run PHP on their site, you can just create an RSS feed or something on your site that can then be parsed by...well...most anything (think PHP 😉).

leroy_brown

Thanks for your reply but what is RSS? 🙂

Sorry as I am NOT programmer, and have not too much idea about PHP, I would need an example that does the same, and I can just change the name of the variables, etc.

What I am waiting for is a program code that does something like this...

The above mentioned MOD for Phpbb would be fine but it is too complicated for me. I tried to use that without success. But I am sure there are examples like this less complicated...

ZibingsCoder

RSS (without going into a detailed description) is basically a page that is created on your site for other sites to read. It allows them to pick up data from (in your case) the last 10 posts in a structured format, maybe like so:

<post id=4>
  <title>This is the post title</title>
  <body>This is the post body</body>
  <poster>John Jenkins</poster>
</post>

Any code "examples" would be pretty lengthy, so I'll hold off on that just yet. If worse comes to worse, I'd be glad to help you with it though, but first we'll see if anyone else has something like it 😉