Opening a URL without echoing to the user

[pip]

Hi,

sorry about the thread title!

I'm currently working on an accounts system which takes a users payment and then will setup an account on a remote host.

I need to write a script which once the users payment is taken executes another script which basically sends a request to a remote host via a URL. The first part is all done however I cannot figure out how to basically open a URL without the user knowing about it - I would hopefully like to open the URL from the server. Once the URL is opened I would then like to recieve back an OK command - 200 command or something similar or even pick up a variable from the page which I have asked to load telling me that it has loaded and the command was executed.

All of the above does need to be done without the user realising it though...

Hope that makes sense - any ideas would be really appreciated as it seems I've taken stupid pills today and can't think!

Thanks 🙂

[trooper]

Look at the Curl set of functions

HTH

GM

[pip]

That looks absolutley perfect - thankyou very much 🙂

[trooper]

My pleasure 🆒

[superwormy]

fsockopen() can also do many things cURL can do, and its built into the default PHP install

www.php.net/fsockopen