Lua via PHP

Hi all,

I have been recently messing around with CC and PHP (not together) and I have a good understanding of them.
My question is, how would you recieve server generated code to CC, then parse/run the Lua and send a response back?

I know it has been done before but never really experimented with it myself.

Thanks in advance.

First, you would need to look into the http API. You can send a GET request to your PHP server. The server should return a string of valid lua.
Once you've got the data from the server, you can use loadstring to turn it into a function, which can then be called at your leisure.
The lua side code might look something like this:

local handle = http.get( "http://www.yourphpserver.com/" )
local func, err = loadstring( handle.readAll() )
if not func then
  error( err, 0 )
end
func()