The tool you're looking for is 'curl'. Look it up in PHP's docs.

Michael said:
> Is it possible to write a script that:
> 1) gathers information
> 2) upon clicking a "submit" button, "posts" this information to a remote
> server for processing. 3) the remote server, by default, will generate
> results and display on it's own web page generated dynamically. 4) can we
> "intercept" this response back to the browser, parse through the
> information and generate our own presentation of the page on our site?
>
> Example:
> http://www.siteA.com/change_password_script (I don't know what kind of
> scripting this is, but it is dynamic) Site A has this interface that takes
> in the username, old password, and new password. If we change the password
> at Site A, we would be brought back that same page with a result
> displayed.
>
> What I need is:
> http://www.mysite.com/my_change_password_script.php?action=change-password
> Present my own look and feel.
> Collect the same information (username, old password, new password), and
> send to: http://www.siteA.com/change_password_script
>
> The challenge is that we don't want the url of Site A appearing at any one
> moment. So we need to get responses from the remote server, parse through
> for results, and display this information:
> http://www.mysite.com/my_change_password_script.php?result=success
>
> Is this possible at all with just PHP scripting?
> I am just guessing.... can the header() function be used to send
> information like a form-POST? and receive responses that is parsable prior
> to printing to the browser?




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