How to HTTP post for a news feed?

[kellydigital]

I am trying to send an HTTP post to a server in order to dynamically grab news feed data. How do I do this using PHP?

Below is the ASP equivalent..but I don't know how to make it work in PHP... please help..

<%@ LANGUAGE="VBScript" %>
<%

Dim objXMLHTTP, xml
Set xml = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

xml.Open "POST", "http://newsfeedpage.cfm", False
xml.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
PostData = "username=" + Server.URLEncode("myusername") + "&password=" + Server.URLEncode("mypassword") + "&service=" + Server.URLEncode("servicename") + "&fontface=" + Server.URLEncode("Courier") + "&fontsize=" + Server.URLEncode("1") + "&type=" + Server.URLEncode("headlines")+ "&sid=" + Server.URLEncode("1")+ "&nextURL=" + Server.URLEncode("detailedarticlepage.asp")
xml.Send PostData
MyPacket = xml.responseText

Set xml = Nothing
Response.write MyPacket
%>

Thanks

[jordy]

Hmz first of all .. this looks like VBscript.. Second.. what is is precise question? are you trying to grab news from a NNTP server.. or are you trying to grab some news from another site?!

What i can make out of this code is that the script fetches the data from a server in xml format.. it looks very much like a SOAPcall but im not quite sure about that..

If you can be more specific in what you want i can be a bit more usefull

GR>Jordy Querner