Here is something I found on the net- it seems to simulate a post.
Jason.
<?php
/*********************************************************************
PostIt - Pretend to be a form.
Copyright (c) 1999 Holotech Enterprises. All rights reserved.
You may freely modify and use this function for your own purposes. You
may freely distribute it, without modification and with this notice
and entire header intact.
This function takes an associative array and a URL. The array is URL-
encoded and then POSTed to the URL. If the request succeeds, the
response, if any, is returned in a scalar array. Outputting this is the
caller's responsibility; bear in mind that it will include the HTTP
headers. If the request fails, an associative array is returned with the
elements 'errno' and 'errstr' corresponding to the error number and
error message. If you have any questions or comments, please direct
them to postit@holotech.net
Alan Little
Holotech Enterprises
http://www.holotech.net/
December 1999
*********************************************************************/
function PostIt($DataStream, $URL) {
// Strip http:// from the URL if present
$URL = ereg_replace("http://", "", $URL);
// Separate into Host and URI
$Host = substr($URL, 0, strpos($URL, "/"));
$URI = strstr($URL, "/");
// Form up the request body
$ReqBody = "";
while (list($key, $val) = each($DataStream)) {
if ($ReqBody) $ReqBody.= "&";
$ReqBody.= $key."=".urlencode($val);
}
$ContentLength = strlen($ReqBody);
// Generate the request header
$ReqHeader =
"POST $URI HTTP/1.1\n".
"Host: $Host\n".
"User-Agent: PostIt (http://www.holotech.net/scripts.html)\n".
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n".
"Content-Length: $ContentLength\n\n".
"$ReqBody\n";
// Open the connection to the host
$socket = fsockopen($Host, 80, &$errno, &$errstr);
if (!$socket) {
$Result["errno"] = $errno;
$Result["errstr"] = $errstr;
return $Result;
}
$idx = 0;
fputs($socket, $ReqHeader);
while (!feof($socket)) {
$Result[$idx++] = fgets($socket, 128);
}
return $Result;
}
?>
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<?php
/
Sample code calling PostIt(). Note (no pun intended) that it is better to
test for an error result with isset() rather than simply
if ($Result["errno"])
as the error number can be zero.
/
include("postit.php3");
$d["foo"] = "some";
$d["bar"] = "data";
$Result = PostIt($d, "http://www.mydomain.com/test/test.php3");
if (isset($Result["errno"])) {
$errno = $Result["errno"]; $errstr = $Result["errstr"];
echo "<B>Error $errno</B> $errstr";
exit;
}
else {
while (list($key, $val) = each($Result)) echo $val;
}
?>
