I'm looking for someone who can build me an external PHP server.
I need to send a HTTP request to a listening PHP server which will do some things on server side and give be an XML/JSON response back.
I can't pay a lot, however if you ever need some functions that are unaccesible in Basic4Android, I could make a library for you.
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Look into setting up a rackspace.com cloud ubuntu server
I think you can get the pricing down to under $20/month
for full root access with the ability to expand as needed
Does it have to specifically be a PHP enabled webserver? I don't know what you want to do but shouldn't you be able to do the same by using pure UDP or TCP sockets?
If you can then I could make an UDP or TCP server tailored to work exactly like you want it.
Look into setting up a rackspace.com cloud ubuntu server
I think you can get the pricing down to under $20/month
for full root access with the ability to expand as needed
1849WebHosting.com has Linux servers for 4.95/mo and VPS servers for 9.95/mo with full root access. They can also provide low cost PCI compliance for your website.
I am currently using cirrushosting.com out of Canada on a $7 per month web server. My database is MySQL and I am using .php web pages to do the work. I have a .php script that gets the device id, user id, password, function and any additional information from a HTTP GET sent from my b4a application. The .php script then does the function required and returns the information as a long string to b4a that processes the result.
So yes it is possible - and actually quite easy
The reason for using http over UDP or TCP is that you would have to built a server program to do that - the web server is already a server program that has been tested for a number of years and is easily scalable. My first version of my program used a custom tcp server in vb6 and that required a windows server which started at $100 per month plus there were some errors that I found along the way. Moving to the web server made my life a whole lot easier