Connecting client application to web server with PHP
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:14 am
I need to connect Paradox based client application to PHP-server. Reason is that the application needs to be able to send and receive XML based invoices. The invoice data needs to be parsed to XML format. The XML parsing would be nice to do with PHP rather than ObjectPal used in Paradox because PHP is much more cabaple text processing tool.
There is only one problem I am facing... I know I can install PHP to client side so it could do the XML parsing directly from and to Paradox database with ODBC connectivity. But is possible to send and receive the XML document with a PHP enabled server that could then further process the requests that reguire use of SOAP+XML-RPC to the business to business network that carries the invoices ?
To put it short... If I do the XML parsing with PHP at client side (windows systems), can I send them to my web-server with PHP:s own tools ? Does PHP have network connectivity without web-server ?
There is only one problem I am facing... I know I can install PHP to client side so it could do the XML parsing directly from and to Paradox database with ODBC connectivity. But is possible to send and receive the XML document with a PHP enabled server that could then further process the requests that reguire use of SOAP+XML-RPC to the business to business network that carries the invoices ?
To put it short... If I do the XML parsing with PHP at client side (windows systems), can I send them to my web-server with PHP:s own tools ? Does PHP have network connectivity without web-server ?