Send request from PHP script to the Node.js script

Question

Is there a way to send any kind of request from the PHP script to the Node.js script?

For example I have this directory:

scripts
|_sender.php
|_receiver.js

I want to send some data from php script and read it with node.js script to execute some action.

How is this done properly?

Answer 1

It depends where js will read it incoming data

If it is a server, start it with node receiver.js then send from your php to http://local host/.... Whatever your server is listening on

Or you can dump your php output into a file and read it by the receiver after

You should provide more informations to get a better answer

Answer 2

The easiest way I use is to pass your PHP data to node using HTTP post or get, here is my code to send data from PHP to the node.

// Node Side
express = require('express');
bodyParser = require('body-parser');
express.use(bodyParser.json());

express.post('/get_php_data', function (req, res) {
    // php array will be here in this variable
    var data = req.body.data;


    res.send(' Done ');
});

httpPost('NODE_URL:2200/get_php_data', array('data' => 'some data'));

// PHP Side
function httpPost($url,$params)
{
    $postData = http_build_query($params);
    $ch = curl_init();  

    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HEADER, false); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, count($postData));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);    

    $output=curl_exec($ch);

    curl_close($ch);
    return $output;
}