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Accessing external application data via PHP

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:22 am
by DrMcCleod
I am currently designing a Linux based distributed system and am taking a look at the kind of network technologies that might be useful. I have had a brief look at PHP and it seems pretty cool, but I wonder if anyone could answer the following question.

Is it possible to access data running in external applications via PHP without using a database?

For example, if I have an application running on my PC, churning out reams of data, how can I access that data within a PHP script such that I can present it to a user via a browser?