On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:54:23 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
>I have a php file in website A's directory, which, when given a key value,
>will check whether it is valid or not. Is there any way I can treat this
>website like a function and have it give me a return value after it has "run
>through" ?
Yes; some kind of Remote Procedure Call protocol (eg SOAP) is designed for
this. But the lightweight way would be something like:
function get_token_validity ($token)
{
$token = 'token=' . rawurlencode ($token); // armour message for sending
$host = 'www.webserverA.com';
if (($sp = fsockopen ($host, 80)) == FALSE)
{
return (NULL);
}
fputs ($sp, "POST /path/to/script.php HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs ($sp, "Host: $host\r\n");
fputs ($sp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
fputs ($sp, "Content-length: " . strlen ($token) . "\r\n\r\n");
fputs ($sp, "$token\r\n");
$result = NULL;
while (!feof ($sp)) {
$a = fgets ($sp);
if (is_numeric ($a))
{
if ($a == FALSE)
{
$result = FALSE;
} else {
$result = TRUE;
}
}
}
fclose ($sp);
return ($result);
}
Untested, but it should be pretty close. Returns TRUE on a valid result,
FALSE on invalid and NULL on error.
The paired script on www.webserverA.com should just echo(1) or echo(0) for a
good or bad result.
>By the way, I work with php3, so I hope there's a solution for that version
>;)
/Ah/. I have to ask... why?
I have no idea whether the above code will run on PHP 3.
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