What I am doing

I have two webhostings, each with their own domain name.

I want to send data from one, to place content in the SQL database of the other website.

The amount of data I would want to send, most likely would be too large for the GET method, therefore I need to find some way to POST it over.

Help I seek includes...

Should a .inc file be ok on the other server, AND will it execute there on the remote server?

Also, how is the best way for me to send data to it?

Would I need to get the remote server to call another file in the local server, so I can use the header statement?

Already know

I have been to the php.net site, as well as w3schools.com.

Looks like the only means I have of sending the database data to the other file is via the GET method.

Maybe I don't understand the question, but couldn't you just connect to the database on the other server?

Often you have your database on the same server as your script is running on, and hence you connect to the host "localhost", but you could just as well connect to your other domains' database, as in

PHP Code:

mysql_connect("yourotherdomain.com:3307", "user", "password"); 


I dont think your webserver can read .inc files as .php files by default.
You can set that manually though.

I think lizciz suggested better way, why sending data with GET and POST when you can connect to another database.

Ok, I shall try that method with thanks.

Shall let you know how it went next week.

One last question, do I need to use the .php extention? or could I use .php4 or .sphp and still have it execute in the same way?

Originally Posted by TRANZIT JIM

One last question, do I need to use the .php extention? or could I use .php4 or .sphp and still have it execute in the same way?

Only if the server is configured to recognise those extensions and handle appropriately.

The server can be configuered to run any type of file you want through the php parser. I *think* the default usually includes .php .php4 and .phtml. I believe you should be able to configure this in a .htaccess file.

If you have root access to your server and if you are on apache i think you can edit httpd.conf and add a line under <IfModule mime_module>

AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .inc

Originally Posted by miki86

If you have root access to your server and if you are on apache i think you can edit httpd.conf and add a line under <IfModule mime_module>

AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php .inc

However, as far as I know, you can always make .htaccess files to run a MIME(?) type as PHP. .htaccess files are just that - files, the same as anything else you can upload. Although most free hosts have .htaccess disabled, if you have at least paid hosting you should be ok.