parsing from another page if they have $_POST

[lordgreg]

it's like this:

• i want to get some info from the page XYZ to my page. XYZ page has a FORM where you can select DAY, MONTH, YEAR and you get the info about a day you selected.

• now, if i want to grab the info from let's say 20. august 2002 my url will look like this: http://XYZ/file.php?day=20&month=8&year=2002.

• THE PROBLEM is, their form has the POST method, which means, if i want to direct link the 20 august, it will bring me to the FORM page and not to DATE page.

is there any ways to bypass this?? I REALLY NEED THAT INFO?!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND BEST REGARDS,

Gregor

[sarahk]

Go to their page and view the source. Then look at all the fields on their form and reconstruct a url and try sending that. If it doesn't work you may need to create the form on your page (can be entirely based on hidden fields, doesn't even need a submit button because you can use javascript to: document.myform.submit(). That way the page wouldn't even know where it was coming from.

good luck

[Weedpacket]

If you want this done by the server, rather than the client (as in sarahk's solution), the cURL library will allow the server to put a POST request together and submit it to XYZ, and retrieve the results.

If cURL is overkill, then the fsock*() functions can be used instead - you'll need to put an HTTP POST request together by hand, but it may be a cleaner solution.