On 02-Jul-01 Clayton Dukes wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Is it possible to get information from a POST to a cgi and return the value?
Yes.
function openpost($host, $path, $poststr) {
$errno=0;
$errstr='';
$hdr=sprintf("POST /%s HTTP/1.0\r\nContent-Length: %d\r\n",
$path, strlen($poststr));
$hdr .="Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$hdr .="Accept: text/html\r\nAccept: text/plain\r\n";
$hdr .="User-Agent: Mozilla/1.0\r\n\r\n";
$fp = fsockopen($host , 80, &$errno, &$errstr, 45);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$host open error: $errstr $errno .\n";
return(0);
} else {
fputs($fp,$hdr.$poststr);
return($fp);
}
}
while (!feof($fp)) {
$buff=fgets($fp, 1024);
dofoo($buff);
}
fclose($fp);
> Isn't there a way to have PHP go and check this onec every x minutes and
> return the status?
Yep, there is.
>
> Can this be done?
Yes.
Regards,
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