Run command from URL or similar?

[themonk30]

Can anyone advise please - I would like to run a bot command that is executed by a PHP Script....
So once they register on my website, they get added to the DB, they receive an email (all done in PHP) - but then I want to pass a command over to my bot (which is working) that will automatically add that user to a role.

They run a command in Discord to get started, so I store their User ID and their Discord UN/Tag in the DB.

!register -> Stores details, send them an email to complete registration process
-> Go to website, complete registration, the get access to a membership area on website
-> At this point, I want to add a role to their discord on my server.

Can this be achieved?

Thank you

[kyranet]

Afaik nothing stops you from calling said API yourself, or porting that PHP script to Node.js for that matter.

I don't think this should be something the library should do, specially when there can be many factors, such as using different protocols (RPC, WS, AMQP such as RabbitMQ...) in either unencrypted, encrypted with TLS/SSL, or SSH-tunneled.

As you'd notice, this can be a very complicated thing, and would easily go outside of what the library should handle.

[themonk30]

I don't expect it's necessarily something the library should or shouldn't do, I guess the question is, could I execute, in some way - the NodeJS file (in PHP) with parameters to set a user ID with a role once PHP script does its thing.

[kyranet]

Yes, you can do that, since it's a PHP server, you just query to it using a HTTP library such as node-fetch.

Edit: we converted this from an issue to a draft.

[themonk30]

Appreciate the guidance, kyranet. I guess the alternative is call the Discord API directly with PHP?

[kyranet]

You could do that, but it's ill-advised as discord.js won't be able to handle your PHP server's ratelimits.

Instead, you query to it and then relay the data to discord.js so it may be handled correctly.