> I am new to php, I would like to create a function that when called > sends text from a text box as a query to a remote cgi script ,e.g > http://www.anydomain.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi, and return the results as a > variable so that i can echo the returned variable to an html page.
<? $contents = ""; $text = "whatever..."; $ftext = urlencode($text); $fp = fopen("http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi?text=" . $ftext, "r"); while($data = fread($fp,1000)) { $contents .= $data; } fclose ($fd); ?> The response is now in $contents. Adapt to your needs. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php