remote connecting with PHP

[jacobyte]

Hi Guys,

this may be slightly off topic for this forum but im looking for some advice.

At work we have been tasked with connecting our PHP/mysql based site up to
a remote computer that is running a VB .NET 2005 desktop application (due to a company takeover)

Im wondering what the best way to do this would be, the php script will have
to send a basic string of data to the remote vb .net app and the vb app will have to send some info back to the mysql db. Connecting the vb app to the mysql server has been worked out, it's just really how to get php to communicate with the vb app.

I was assuming the best way to acheive this would be to use sockets but I havent really explored this area of php before.

Any advice would be welcome, thanks for you time 🙂

[MarkR]

Presumably the VB.NET app is an interactive thing. Therefore, it's more likely that you'll want to connect the other direction (From .NET to PHP).

Use the http client stuff in .NET to connect to the server running PHP, and make form-encoded POSTs, then you'll be able to send / receive whatever you want.

Alternatively use SOAP.

If they're running a desktop / interactive application as a server, there is something wrong by design.

Mark