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Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP [message #178435 is a reply to message #178421]

Mon, 18 June 2012 07:54

Arno Welzel
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Robert Rosenberg, 16.06.2012 20:25:

> I would like to go to an external site and send a form to it via Post
> (simulating having generated the form and having the user submit it). I know
> that if I had been using GET, I could just code the parms along with the URL
> in the location command. To simulate Post I assume that I just need to use
> header to send the POST parms but I do not know the format of what to place
> in the header request (and I assume that I then use location to fire off to
> connection).

If available - use curl:

<http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php>

> Can someone either supply me with a sample code to do this or give me the
> URL of the documentation of the Headers that get sent by Post so I can look
> them up and create the needed script myself.

<?php
$data = array(
'field1'=>'value1',
'field2'=>'value2'
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://server.example');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>

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		Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Robert Rosenberg on Sat, 16 June 2012 18:25
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 16 June 2012 18:45
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Luuk on Sat, 16 June 2012 18:46
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Robert Rosenberg on Sun, 17 June 2012 00:10
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 June 2012 00:41
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Luuk on Sun, 17 June 2012 18:14
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: J.O. Aho on Sun, 17 June 2012 12:19
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Denis McMahon on Tue, 03 July 2012 12:11
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Arno Welzel on Mon, 18 June 2012 07:54

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