can php post data?

Hello,

I have a php form. I want to take the data and post it to a few various sites. I know perl can do this, can PHP do it as well?

So for example, user hits submit. Data is the sent to a script on the various few sites via post method.

Any guidance is appreciated. Could not find this in any of the few books I have.

thanks

Hi Jay,

What you need is to install curl from http://curl.haxx.se/ and configured it with php .

Here is the instruction for installing
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/install.html

In your PHP code the script that is submitted using post method.
<?php

foreach($HTTP_POST_VARS as $key=>$value)
{ $data .= "$key=$value&"; }

$url = "http://www.sitepost.com/script.php";
$curl = '/usr/local/curl/bin/curl';

exec("$curl -d \"$data\" $url", $response);

Here is an article that mention about using Curl via SSL.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/michael20010510.php3

Have Fun With PHP (:
Bn