At 12/1/2006 10:17 AM, Scott wrote:
For a project of mine, I need to keep the connection information to
a MySQL server database on another server.
I'm sure there are more efficient ways to do this, but here's a fall-back:
Write a PHP program (web service) to run on the server where the
database is located. From the other server, make an HTTP request
that includes the connection details (obfuscated), some sort of
password that can verify the authenticity of the requesting agent,
and either the literal SQL query or a symbolic pointer to a stored query.
http://example.com/sqlservice.php?u=HJDFH&p=hglkdl&a=1095673263&q=members
or
http://example.com/sqlservice.php?u=HJDFH&p=hglkdl&a=1095673263&q=SELECT%20Firstname...
The web service validates the request and returns the dataset, in
XML, as a serialized array, or in another easy-to-use format, for the
requesting program to parse and utilize. The first thing I'd put in
the return dataset would be a status code to communicate MySQL
errors, perhaps also num_rows for SELECT queries to reduce the number
of trans-server requests necessary for typical jobs.
Regards,
Paul
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