Get serverlist

madmadmax

Hello!
I have a C# server and I need some pointers on how to:
1. Send bytes to the C# server and receive a list of strings
2. Display the list of strings on the page with organized colums/rows
3. This process should be done once every X amount of time and not for every separate user visiting the web page

I have no idea where to start since I specialize in C# :p
Help appreciated, Max.

dagon

why are you asking a c question on a php forum?

madmadmax

It's question about communication between PHP and C#

bradgrafelman

madmadmax;10998230 wrote:
1. Send bytes to the C# server and receive a list of strings

[man]fsockopen/man followed by [man]fwrite/man and [man]fread/man.

madmadmax;10998230 wrote:
2. Display the list of strings on the page with organized colums/rows

[man]echo[/man] (with the appropriate HTML to create 'organized colums[sic]/rows' as desired).

madmadmax;10998230 wrote:
3. This process should be done once every X amount of time and not for every separate user visiting the web page

This is a bit more involved. It sounds like you want to cache the data received on the server and that every request should determine if the cache is stale. If it is, only one request should initiate a new data retrieval while the other wait for it to finish; if it isn't, just use the cached data.

Is that correct?

madmadmax

bradgrafelman;10998329 wrote:
[man]fsockopen/man followed by [man]fwrite/man and [man]fread/man.

[man]echo[/man] (with the appropriate HTML to create 'organized colums[sic]/rows' as desired).

This is a bit more involved. It sounds like you want to cache the data received on the server and that every request should determine if the cache is stale. If it is, only one request should initiate a new data retrieval while the other wait for it to finish; if it isn't, just use the cached data.

Is that correct?

Yes it is. Thank you very much for the info provided.