Question

I will set up a register page using MSSQL.

The system must work like:

1. User appends data at something.com/register.php

2. The data is sent to host-ip-address/regsecond.php which my database will be at. (For security reasons, this php page wont directly access to the database.

3. The php page at host will start another PHP page or EXE file will directly reach database directly and securely.

As my php level is not high, I wanted to learn If i could start php scripts which will work and do their job without coming into users browsers. Here I explain what I say:

” I append some data at x.php, and it starts another PHP script which will do the job with the DATA appended from x.php but the -another PHP script- wont come into users browser “

I was hopefully clear ,as summary, should I use exe [will be harder] or can I start PHP script without coming into browser. And how of course.

Answer 1

You can do this using the curl extension. You can find info on it here:

http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

You can do something like the following:

$postdata = array(
    'item1' => 'data'
);

$ch = curl_init("http://host-ip-address/regsecond.php");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);

curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

This makes a call directly from your first script to your second script without exposing anything to the user. On the far side, the data will come in as regular post data ($_POST).