> 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...
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