posting a job to an outside jobboard

deezin2

Hello.
I am new to php, I have only been studying it for a few weeks. I need some advice, and I am hoping one of you can help me in the right direction. Can anyone tell me in basic terms how you would go about posting a job from an internal form to an outside site. For example, if I posted a job on my site and I wanted it also posted to Flipdog.com or some other job site - how would I do this? If anyone could help, I would be very grateful. I have a developer who has created something like this for me, but I am not happy with the results and I want to take it into my hands, but I want to make sure before I go forward that I know what I am doing. Thanks. :-)

Rachel

andrin

Often a server does not have the permission to post to another server. If you have the permission to post to a server then you just type the url in the action attribute of your form element:

Anon

I'm going to assume that (1) it's OK with the external site, and (2) you want ONE form to be submitted to multiple databases -- your own and one or more externals.

You can pass form input on to external URLs through two methods:

GET: Very simple (see the URL for this page). PHP can call any external URL as if it were a local file. See the filesystem section of the manual. The problem is that you probably are going to want to pass too much data to use a GET method, and the remote site may not support it anyway.

POST: PHP does not directly support POST input to remote sites, but it does support socket-level connections, so you can write your own routines. There are a number of code snippet examples that can use the POST method, on this site and at px.sklar.com. An easy-to-understand version is here:
http://www.holotech.net/scripts.html
(look for PostIt)

If you are posting to a site on a virtual server that uses name-based hosting, you may need to rewrite the headers to support HTTP 1.1 instead of 1.0.