Question

I need to send a file from one PHP page (on which client uploads their files) to another PHP page on another server were files will be finaly stored.

To comunicate now I use JSON-RPC protocol; is it wise to send the file this way?

$string = file_get_contents("uploaded_file_path");

send the string to remote server and then

file_put_contents("file_name", $recieved_string_from_remte);

I understand that this approach takes twice the time than uploading directly to the second server.

Thanks

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details:

i need to write a service allowing some php (may be joomla) user to use a simple api to upload files and send some other data to my server which analyze them , put in a db and send back a response

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i need to create a Simple method allowing the final user to do that, who will use this the interface on server 1 (the uploading) use the php and stop, so remote ssh mount ore strange funny stuff

Answer 1

If I were you, I’d send the file directly to the second server and store its file name and/or some hash of the file name (for easier retrieval) in a database on the first server.

Using this approach, you could query the second server from the first one for the status of the operation. This way, you can leave the file processing to the second machine, and assign user interaction to the first machine.