Re: receive web order from another server

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Additionally you might contact Mike Pavlak.  He has a presentation with 
examples about how to use PHP to attach to the web service created on 
the IBM i box in RPG.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 5/4/2011 9:14 PM, Pete Hall wrote:
> On 2011-05-04 20:30, Jim Franz wrote:
> > >  Need to receive orders produced from a shopping cart on another server.
> > >  Each will have name/address order&  shipto info, plus 1 to many detail records.
> > >  No CC stuff. No $$ for edi software.
> > >  I'd like to sound halfway intelligent talking to a php developer on the other end as
> > >  to how we could handle this (web service pgm?) or simple ftp...
> > >  Many orders a day but we a not talking huge volumes. Currently getting it via email.
> > >  This then will feed into an inhouse entry system, v6r1&  strictly a RPG shop.
> > >  Jim Franz
> Here's a php script that I use to submit a request to a copy of the w3c
> html validator that I host on a local server. I use it for validating
> all of the html pages in a local directory.
>
> #!/usr/bin/php
> <?php
> $page ="http://validator.invalid/check?uri=$argv[1]";;
> if ($fp = fopen($page, 'r')) {
>          $contents = fread($fp, 100000);
>          // Find 'Passed validation' or 'Failed validation'
>          if (preg_match("/\bPassed validation/",$contents)) {
>                  echo(1);
>          } else {
>                  if (preg_match("/\bFailed validation/",$contents)) {
>                          echo(0);
>                  } else {
>                          echo(-1);
>                  }
>          }
>          fclose($fp);
> } else {
>          echo(-1);
> }
> ?>
>
> You could also check out the examples at paypal.com. They have an html
> interface, and examples of how to use it from php.
>
> hth
>
> - -- 
> Pete Hall
> pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx