What I essentially want to do is to be able to call a function or script on another server using PHP and receive a response. Let me set up an example:
On my web application, I have a page, and I need to send some data to the server, have the server do some work and then return a response.
Web application:
<?php
// call server script, sending it for example a string, "testString", then wait for a response
?>
Server script:
<?php
// get the string "testString", so some work on it and return it, displaying it on the web app
?>
I'm not looking for someone to complete this for me, just to head me in the right direction. I've read that cURL can be useful for this, but have yet to be able to get any examples to work for me, such as these ones:
http://www.jonasjohn.de/snippets/php/curl-example.htm
How to get response using cURL in PHP
So what's an ideal route to head in to solve my problem?
cURL operates just like a browser basically. It makes an HTTP request to a server and gets back the response. So one server is the 'client' and one server is the 'server'.
On the server server (lol), set up a page called index.php that outputs some text
<?php
echo 'hello from the server server';
Then from the client server, create a page called index.php to make the cURL request to the server server.
<?php
// init curl object
$ch = curl_init();
// define options
$optArray = array(
CURLOPT_URL => 'http://www.serverserver.com', <--- edit that URL
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true
);
// apply those options
curl_setopt_array($ch, $optArray);
// execute request and get response
$result = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($result);
Then, when you go to the client server URL, the client server will hit the server server, just like it was a person using a browser over HTTP, and print the result to the screen.
Hope that helps. Didn't actually test it.
If you do not have control over both the machines or the host server does not provide you with an API to be able to do that, this is not doable. Otherwise it is as simple as setting up some code on host server which will receive commands from your client, then process and respond accordingly. Once that is setup then you can easily call your server code with either cURL or even file_get_contents
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I have to send an SMS by making an HTTP request via GET method. The link contains information in the form of GET variables, e.g.
http://www.somelink.com/file.php?from=12345&to=67890&message=hello%20there
After I run the script it has to be as if someone clicked the link and activated the SMS sending process.
I have found some links about get request and curl and what not, it’s all so confusing!
I think the easiest way to make an HTTP request via GET method from PHP is using file_get_contents().
<?php
$response = file_get_contents('http://example.com/send-sms?from=12345&to=67890&message=hello%20there');
echo $response;
Don’t forget to see the notes section for info on PHP configuration required for this to work. You need to set allow_url_fopen to true in your php.ini.
Note that this works for GET requests only and that you will have no access to the headers (request, nor response). Also, enabling allow_url_fopen might not be a good choice for security reasons.
The easiest way is probably to use cURL. See https://web.archive.org/web/20180819060003/http://codular.com/curl-with-php for some examples.
Lets assume that we want to retrive http://www.google.com
$cURL = curl_init();
$setopt_array = array(CURLOPT_URL => "http://www.google.com", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array());
curl_setopt_array($cURL, $setopt_array);
$json_response_data = curl_exec($cURL);
print_r($json_response_data);
curl_close($cURL);
/*
cURL is preinstalled by goDaddy.com and many other php hosting providers
it is also preinstalled in wamp and xampp
good luck.
*/
So in JavaScript, I used to be able to have an http request initiate a callback when AJAX sent a response back to some data I sent to the server, successfully being a callback function. I'm now experimenting with the OAuth2 gem for Ruby, and I'm finding callbacks to not be the same;
I have a web server and facebook app set up, and I have a small php script that writes the current URL (including the auth code, for example) to a file, no problem. All the settings in the facebook app are set up, and if I put this in the URL in the browser:
http://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=[my_client_id]&redirect_uri=http://localhost/oauth/callback/index.php
It redirects successfully to that script, which then writes the authorization code to a file which I can then use to get the access token. Problem is that I can only do this process manually; using the Net::HTTP.get(URI(address)) command in ruby doesn't seem to initiate the php script.
Ayone have any ideas?
I have no idea why you posted your history with javascript ajax requests, as it has no bearing on your ruby script, which by the way doesn't even use a callback method/function. Using a callback function just means you are calling some function and passing it another function as an argument. When I started programming, the term callback function was very confusing to me, and in my opinion the term should be dropped from the lingo.
As for your ruby script, you need to use something like Firebug to look at the request headers that are being sent by your browser to the server when you manually enter the url in your browser. If you use those same headers in your ruby script, then it should work, e.g.:
req['header1'] = 'hello'
req['header2'] = '10'
or:
headers = {
'header1' => 'hello',
'header2' => '10',
...
}
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri, headers)
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
resp = http.request(req)
It's possible that you have a cookie set in your browser, which your browser automatically adds to the request headers when it sends the request to the server. Your browser probably adds thousands of headers to the request--many of which will have no bearing on your problem. If you have the patience, you can try to figure out which header is causing your ruby script's request to malfunction.
Another option is to use the mechanize gem, which will automatically handle cookies and redirects for requests sent by ruby scripts:
http://docs.seattlerb.org/mechanize/GUIDE_rdoc.html
(Read the section Let's Fetch a Page; Don't use the line require 'rubygems' if you are using ruby 1.9+).
I personally don't see how this can be done even though these are my servers. But I want to know if my servers can reach external sites--ping a generic website for example--have outgoing communication. That is, I want to use execute a PHP script on one server, connecting to another of my servers, and test if the second server can ping a website, for example. So I know how to use PHP on the server my script is executing from to ping a website with fopensocket. I just don't know how to set this up to test another server's pingability. I mean I have the credentials but the only way is to have my script on each and every server and then reach the script and execute them. That is not what I want. I want to do this from the one/external server and just feed my script the ip/port/uid/pwd of the server I want to test.
An easy API would look something like:
SERVER1:
// get response from server2
$response = file_get_contents('http://www.server2.com/api.php?method=ping&ip=IP&port=PORT&uid=UID&pwd=PWD');
// do json_decode() if response is json string
SERVER2 (api.php):
// respond to API call
if (isset($_GET['method']) && $_GET['method'] == 'ping') {
// get other params and do your ping function
echo $pingresult; // perhaps a json encoded array
exit;
}
There is no security so you could send an API password or do it with OAuth or HMAC
I am developing an application in which the input I receive is through an SMS gateway ( and not a browser). I need to process the data obtained through SMS and pass it onto another PHP file which will finish the processing and send back an SMS to the SMS gateway.
However, when I try to redirect from page1.php to page2.php, it is not working with the following code:
page1.php:
$url = "location:http://www.iweavesolutions.com/$extra?sms=".$msg."&keyword=".$key."&num=".$msg_num."&src=".$source;
header($url);
page2.php:
$msg = $_GET['sms'];
$msg_num = $_GET['num'];
$keyword = $_GET['keyword'];
$src = $_GET['src'];
send_sms($msg,$msg_num);
However, the header call in the first page doesn't seem to work. php documentation says that header is used for browser related activities. In my application there is no browser at all. So, do I need to change my mechanism for passing values across files? Please help
please refer to "CURL"
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.iweavesolutions.com");
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'variable1=abc&variable2=123');
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS,1);
$buffer = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
some thing like this
Sending a location:[someUrl] header as an answer to a request just tells the requesting client to do another request to that location. It is up to the client whether to follow this redirect or not. Browsers will usually do this, other clients may not.
If the client you're dealing with (the SMS gateway) does not follow location header redirects, you need to check with the clients documentation if there is some mechanism to make him do that. If there is no way to redirect the client, you need to change your server side logic to get rid of the need for the redirect, i.e. you need to call the processing logic in your 'page2.php' directly from 'page1.php' without the indirection of the redirect (or bundle the whole logic in one file, etc.).
The SMS gateway probably does not implement HTTP properly. IME this is not uncommon.
As a side note, your first script (assuming it is complete) is written assuming register_globals is enabled - this has been deprecated for a long time, and does not url-encode the values - which may be the cause of the issue here. If not, you'll need to either:
fix the SMS gateway
change the end point registered on the SMS gateway to eliminate the ned for redirection
include the code from the redirected script into the current endpoint script
proxy the request from the gateway in the endpoint script.
I'm not very expert to PHP. I want to know how to communicate between 2 web servers. For clearance, (from 1st Server) run a function (querying) on remote server. And return the result to 1st server.
Actually the theme will be:
Web Server (1) ----------------> Web Server (2) ---------------> Database Server
Web Server (1) <---------------- Web Server (2) <--------------- Database Server
Query Function() will be only located on Web Server (2). Then i need to run that query function() remotely from Web Server (1).
What is it call? And Is it possible?
Yes.
A nice way I can think of doing would be to send a request to the 2nd server via a URL. In the GET (or POST) parameters, specify which method you'd like to call, and (for security) some sort of hash that changes with time. The hash in there to ensure no third-party can run the function arbitrarily on the 2nd server.
To send the request, you could use cURL:
function get_url($request_url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $request_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $response;
}
This sends a GET request. You can then use:
$request_url = 'http://second-server-address/listening_page.php?function=somefunction&securityhash=HASH';
$response = get_url($request_url);
On your second server, set up the listening_page.php (with whatever filename you like, of course) that checks for GET requests and verifies the integrity of the request (i.e. the hash, correct & valid params).
You can do so by using an API. create a page on second server that takes variables and communicates to the server using those vars (depending on what you need). and the standard reply from that page should be either JSON or XML. then read that from server 1 by requesting that file and getting the reply from the 2nd server.
*NOTE if its a private file, make sure you use an authentication method to prevent users from accessing the file
What you are aiming to do is definitely possible. You will need to set up some sort of api in order for server one to make a request to server 2.
I suggest you read up on SOAP and REST api
http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/make-your-own-soap-api
Generally you will use something like CURL to contact server 2 from server 1.
Google curl and you should quickly get idea.
Its not going to be easy to give you a complete solution so I hope this nudge in the right direction is helpful.