HOW to send message from php to desktop app (c#)

Question

Hello guys,

Am developing a desktop app that will serve as message notifier, just like yahoo messenger and Gmail notifier does. All i want is that when a message is sent to a particular account, the php script would send message to a particular ip:port of the desktop application.

Any help

Answer 1

Expose web service (ex. WCF service with basicHTTP) in your desktop application and send messages using for example SOAPClient from PHP to your desktop app. Web services are very good for intolerability issues. Of course you can use pure socket solution, but I would suggest web services.

RESTFul services are also a good option.

EDIT : PHP calling .NET – PHP to WCF communication.

Answer 2

I don't think you will be able to sent message from php to Win application. There can be two solution

1. You create a Wcf self hosted service within your win app which will be exposed on a particular port to which your php script will make a request to notify.
2. Ping a php page at particular intervals.

Answer 3

You might consider going the other way - expose a REST web service from your PHP code, and periodically query that service from your client appliation.

Answer 4

I'm assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that this is a PHP script on a webserver.

If that's the case, doing it the other way around is much easier. By that I mean add another script that C# can call and receive instructions/data from. I suggest you use a nice slimline format like JSON but anything will do as long as you can process it at each end.

Answer 5

I want to thank you guys for your support.

I finally got two options, as i was an expert in php i used sockets. in my c# app, i had two options Httplistener and winsock. Although i experimented with winsock, i finally settled for Httplister.

it worked like a charm