NYCPHP Meetup

[Phillip Powell]

Brian Kaney wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:57, Phillip Powell wrote:
>  
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>>Now, if timer.php instantiates a Timer object that uses the URL 
>>parameter of "http://www.myphpwebsite.com/index.php" it will scrape that 
>>site.  
>>    
>>
>
>If you have control over both "sites"
>

Actually I should have read your email more carefully, sorry.  No I do 
not have control over either "site" as this is a portable application.  
I will ultimately have to not be able to use a messaging service 
client/server platform of any kind because of the necessity of 
portability.  Back to "scraping".. :(

Phil

> and need to exchange information,
>instead of site-scraping you may want to consider an architectural
>change and use XML-RPC or SOAP .  There are modules on PEAR as well as
>new native functions for PHP5.
>
>- Brian
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