Can PHP communicate with remote one ?

[zallen]

Hi friends,
I am a newbie of PHP and hope you can help me.We have a home gateway which runs VxWorks.There is a standalone PC as WEB server(Linux+apache+PHP).The PC and gateway are in same ethernet.
We hope the user can visit and control the gateway through the WEB server.Whether or not the PHP can communicate with the gateway ?
BTW the VxWorks is a RTOS with TCP/IP stack support.


Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
zallen
Long live of freedom!

 

[rycamor]

What exactly do you want users to be able to do with the gateway?

 

[zallen]

The gateway can be used to control different IA nodes such as digital Camera,etc.What i really want is how the PHP can talk with the gateway.
I know the PHP run on WEB server and it can manipulate the local files.However i donot know if the PHP can communicate with daemon program resided on remote box (here is gateway).

Maybe the PHP can use socket?
Regards! zallen@cmmail.com
Long live of freedom!

 

[rycamor]

PHP can use socket programming. See

http://php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php

. On the gateway, you could probably just write a couple Perl scripts that can accept the socket commands and perform the actions.

 

[zallen]

Thank you very much!
I will do it .

Regards! zallen@cmmail.com
Long live of freedom!