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Posted by Harry Wiley
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Harry Wiley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,705 Points

local host?

While testing a script using a local host server and the script calls for an ip action, will it complete the task by connecting to the web. ex. if the script calls to post results from a live site online...do I have to be running live myself or can the local host call live sites

3 Answers

Victor Miclovich
Victor Miclovich
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Victor Miclovich
Victor Miclovich
9,108 Points

Can you explain your question in detail. What script are you using (javascript, erb, etc)? What is it you are calling? Are you reading a Resource (json, xml) from a live site online elsewhere into your localhost? Are you on Rails or PHP?

Harry Wiley
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Harry Wiley
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Harry Wiley
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Harry Wiley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,705 Points

running a php script that searches a live data base on line. Can a local server pull data from on line and post it back to the local browser. Using json to pull data. Just need to see if testing on ny locsl server will work or do I need to pay for a dev. server.

Victor Miclovich
Victor Miclovich
9,108 Points

It should be able to do that. Are you using CURL requests through PHP to query something? Sometimes, adding some bit of jQuery (javascript) can be able to load data from a remote (online) site to your localhost.

Ref: [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13241344/grabbing-data-from-a-website-with-curl-after-logging-in [2] http://themekraft.com/blog/getting-json-data-with-php-curl/

This depends on how you want to use your code.

Harry Wiley
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Harry Wiley
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Harry Wiley
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Harry Wiley
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,705 Points

thanks,