Send request from PHP script to the Node.js script - php

Question

Is there a way to send any kind of request from the PHP script to the Node.js script?
For example I have this directory:
scripts
|_sender.php
|_receiver.js
I want to send some data from php script and read it with node.js script to execute some action.
How is this done properly?

Answer 1

The easiest way I use is to pass your PHP data to node using HTTP post or get, here is my code to send data from PHP to the node.
// Node Side
var express = require('express');
express = express();
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
express.use(bodyParser.json());
express.post('/get_php_data', function (req, res) {
// php array will be here in this variable
var data = req.body.data;
res.send(' Done ');
});
// PHP Side
httpPost('NODE_URL:2200/get_php_data', array('data' => 'some data'));
function httpPost($url,$params)
{
$postData = http_build_query($params);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($postData));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
$output=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}

Answer 2

It depends where js will read it incoming data
If it is a server, start it with node receiver.js then send from your php to http://local host/.... Whatever your server is listening on
Or you can dump your php output into a file and read it by the receiver after
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