How to Read PHP Requests & Responses in ASP.NET

You can develop a Web application in PHP but use the Microsoft .NET framework to process the input from the PHP front-end software. The .NET framework has a "WebRequest" class library that opens a PHP page and retrieves the values sent by the PHP page. You use this process to read values from a PHP page using custom software developed in the Microsoft .NET Visual Studio software.

Instructions

1. Open the Visual Studio software and open the .NET project you want to use to retrieve values from the PHP pages.

2. Create the request to open the Web page. The following code opens the PHP page "index.php" on the site named "mysite.com":

   WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://mysite.com/index.php);

3. Get the response from the PHP page. The response variable contains the data returned by the PHP page. The following sets up the response variable:

   WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

4. Convert the response data to a string so you can display the results to the reader. The following code converts the PHP response to a string and stores the data in a variable named "phpstring":

   Stream data= response.GetResponseStream ();
   StreamReader sr = new StreamReader (data);
   string phpstring= sr.ReadToEnd ();

5. Display the results to the .NET console. The following code shows you how to display the PHP response in the .NET software:

   Console.WriteLine (phpstring);

References

• Microsoft: Request Data Using the WebRequest Class