Close a Blank Application with a RETURN value

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#1

I have a Blank App which is called by an external 3rd party application. Upon completion I would like to RETURN to the 3rd party application a RETURN VALUE.
I am closing the Blank app with the below. Can someone please tell me how I can include a value for the 3rd party application to pickup.

echo “<script>window.close();</script>”;

#2

The basic logic is like this.

  1. Third party makes a http request to your application, like the same way a user query an API
  2. Your blank application should response with a valid format, lets say a json or html content.
  3. Third party read the response.

Let me show and scenario.

You have a website site called stats.com that display stats from another website of your domain called hello.com. Into hello.com there is a blank application that summarize the total of users of your site, so, your blank application could looks like this:


sc_lookup(dataset, "select count(*)  from users" );
$total = {dataset[0][0]};

// The step 2 is happening here
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode(['total_users' => $total], JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);

When you open the blank application via web browser you will look this:


{
    "total_users" => 45
}

How does stats.example.com read that content? If the third party is using PHP then you can do:


// The step 1 is happening here
$content = file_get_contents('http://hello.com');

// The step 3 is happening here
$stats = json_decode($content);
echo "There are {$stats->total_users} users online";

Take a look where evey step is triggered. This is a very basic example using a json format, but can use html, xml, plain text, or whatever. Also, your third party in some cases can use PHP, javascript, or any language that supports the format returned

#3

Thank you so much