Assuming you mean that the PHP script is on a web server somewhere and
the desktop app is hitting it over HTTP, it's no different than any
other response. Anything you print will be sent back to the client, in
this case your desktop a.. So if you want to send XML back, you'd build
a string with your XML (either manually or using the DOM or SimpleXML
APIs or a 3rd party like QueryPath or whatever floats your boat) and
print it, just as you would HTML.
Note that you may need to explicitly set headers with header() to make
sure the desktop app reads it properly.
--Larry Garfield
On 3/4/11 5:48 PM, Ken Watkins wrote:
Hi All.
I have a Windows desktop app that I created using Visual Foxpro (a database app).
I want to write a PHP script that I will call from my desktop app. The script will simply
query a MySQL database on my web server and return the recordset to the desktop app.
My question is simply this: What is the preferred method for passing this recordset back
to the desktop app? I'm assuming that there's no reasonable way to send a recordset back
without converting it to an array or XML or an object or something? How do I return the
data in the recordset to the desktop app?
Thanks for your advice.
Ken Watkins
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