Communicating with software???

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cturner
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Communicating with software???

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I am wondering if there is a way for PHP to communicate with software? The software will be grain trading. Grain trading is like trading shares except it is trading grain. If so how?
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Depends on the interfaces the trading software offers.
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Post by ibbo »

You can pipe input and output into other apps but the more complex theya re the harder it will be.

check out http://uk.php.net/popen

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