On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 09:36 PM, .ben wrote:
> Hi. Does anyone know how to POST data to another script as if a form
> had
> done so? I want to POST some data to a script on another site and
> retrieve
> the data that is returned so i can poick it apart, i did it in ASP
> using a
> 3rd party component... just wondering if the same could be done in PHP.
>
> Any help appreciated.
This function will look a lot prettier once you've copied it into a text
editor that can handle > 80 columns -- or you can remove the comments.
From the archives:
# ===============================================================
# PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# "It is a trivial little function."
# -Rasmus
# ===============================================================
function PostToHost($host, $path, $data_to_send)
{
$fp = fsockopen($host,80);
// $fp now points to the "file" opened
by fsockopen
fputs($fp, "POST $path HTTP/1.0\n");
// write the first header, with
the path and the protocol (annotations suggest using 1.0 over 1.1)
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n");
// write the hostname line of the header
fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n"); //
write
the encoding type line of the header
fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data_to_send) . "\n"); //
write
the content-length of data to send
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n");
// close the connection, and
a blank line
fputs($fp, $data_to_send);
// write the data to send (in POST variable
form)
while(!feof($fp)) {
// until the end of the "file", eat 128
bytes at a time
echo fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
// close the "file"
}
----
Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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