As part of one of our data integration projects, we were asked to process some web form data through a third party webservice. The web form was built in PHP, and our standard PHP webservice library has always been to use NuSOAP tool kit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/). It has always been easier to deal with and integrate and diverse hosting platforms, that is, up until this past project.
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Tags: Apache, curl, DNS, hosting nameservers, ipv4, ipv6, ipv6 dns issues, nameservers, nusoap, Php, php web services, vps
Here is a snippet of code that I wish I had when I needed to write a small routine to output a PHP RSS feed.
RSS Feeds are XML-like so they need to be carefully crafted.
1.) Setup the main header of the rss feed. Remember to carefully escape all of your text going into string
fields using htmlentities().
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Created a personalized Robot Agent, based on Silva Tech’s flexible data extraction, reporting and crawling framework (DERC Framework, a Silva Tech Solutions framework) that has saved Mr. Gordon countless hours of monitoring his target system himself and responding to the monotonous events. The agent was setup on a very specific schedule, authenticated into a third party application system, searched for a very specific criteria and automatically submitted data. The agent monitored and reacted differently to a certain set of resulting events that were returned from the application system. The Crawl Agent would then email Mr. Gordon and shut itself down. Mr. Gordon could easily control his personalized DERC Framework agent, from a custom built secure web interface. The DERC Framework is a very flexible proprietary data extraction, reporting and crawling framework that Mr. Silva has been building upon and refining for five years.