Pass Data Between Websites?

[Craig Hardcastle]

Hi,

How do you pass data between websites?

By this i mean say a users information was stored at a site, say "User
Info" and a website "TheLogin" wanted to get the users info from "User
Info", how would this be done?

This is probably an easy thing to do, but i'm a newbie!

Thanks,

Craig.

[Berislav Lopac]

Craig Hardcastle wrote:

Hi,

How do you pass data between websites?

By this i mean say a users information was stored at a site, say "User
Info" and a website "TheLogin" wanted to get the users info from "User
Info", how would this be done?

This is probably an easy thing to do, but i'm a newbie!

This is a perfect case for the use of Web services, which is a latest Web
buzzword. The idea is that, in your case, the "User Info" site has all the
data, as well as the code needed to extract the data. Then the other site
calls the program throught a HTTP request, and the first site gives a
response as an XML-formatted data. Actually, this is exactly how some
systems, like Microsoft's Passport, work.

Check a bit around and Google for Web services, XML-RPC and SOAP.

Berislav

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[Craig Hardcastle]

Thanks Berislav I'll look into your suggestions.

Craig.