I am trying the iPhone to control the RC car project.

I installed the Apache webserver and loaded files car.php and vector.php to /htdocs. I've also wired the R/C and programmed the microcontroller.

I have 2 problems: 1) when I access 98.210.217.50 (my ip)/car.php... Safari says it cannot open the page 2) How do you make a 'named pipe' on Windows?

Can anyone provide step by step on what you did to complete the project and the code used?

Ok, I am able to bring up car.php on my iphone (I was typing the wrong ip)

Now, I just need to know how to create a 'named pipe' in windows.

Any ideas?

I think I have figured it out. I will create a python socket server to make PHP and Python talk. I'm thinking something like this.

import socket
mySocket = socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
mySocket.bind ( ( '', 2727 ) )
mySocket.listen ( 5 )
while True:
    channel, details = mySocket.accept()
    print 'We have opened a connection with', details
    txt = channel.recv ( 100 )
    print txt
    channel.send ( "This is a response test - attempt 1\0" )
    channel.close()

Any ideas, or suggestions?

Hi Tripp,

It looks like you have exactly the right idea on the python side. I think you want to move the

mySocket.listen ( 5 )

call inside the while loop. That way you will process one connection, then wait for the next one to come through from the php script.

Humberto

Actually, you only need to call mySocket.listen(5) once. It's part of the server config and basically says the server can hold up to 5 clients in its queue.