posting data to remote page

Anon

Hi All...
I have to post5 data to a remote machine. This script will run on a schedule (Cron or scheduler) and query a DB for info, If a flag in the db has been set it needs to post 3 fields from the query to a remote machine.

How do I write a http post with out using javascript to automaticly submit the data?

-Mike

Anon

you may be able to use the header() function and use the GET method:

header ("location: http://www.domain.com/file.php?name=value");

rrijnders

Check out:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

Anon

I have to use the post method. No name/value pairs either.

I have some perl code that works, I just need it in php.

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(
'POST' => 'https://www.bobshouse.com/sync'
);

$req->protocol( 'HTTP/1.0' );
$req->content_type( 'text/plain' );
$req->content( $content );

// Check to see if it worked
print STDERR $req->as_string() if DEBUG;

my $res = $ua->request( $req );

print STDERR $res->as_string() if DEBUG;

if ( $res->is_success() ) {
my @ = split( /\n/, $res->content() );
die( $data[1] ) unless $data[0];
print STDERR "SUCCESS!\n";
exit 0;
}
//

Anyone have any ideas? Is this even possible in PHP? This won't be run from a browser.

Anon

Thanks, but unfortuatly, it's on a windows box. It may just be easier to install activeperl and run the working perl script.

theslinky

Mike,

Have you considered using sockets to open the connection and passing in the POST headers? This will definitely work in both windows and linux, but it will require about 5-10 lines of code.

I don't know how exactly POST data is submitted via the header. I'll look it up and give you a sample code you can use.

-sridhar

rrijnders

Look through the user comments on the url I posted; there are many comments on how to get curl functionality with Windoze.

-- Rich