Help needed

aarce

Hello people!

I am trying to send POST variables to a remote php handling page. I want to do it programmatically, via a script that runs unattended (without an http server).
My goal is to emulate the behaviour of a person clicking the "send" button on a browser.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks

Amado Arce

stolzyboy

nix or win

ednark

several options:

1) read the RFC on http protocal (or find other explaination online). open up a socket, write your own http request with your click to the socket, wait for a webpage reply

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
php manual [man]sockets[/man] page

2) find some other person's code online that does 1) for you

http://lwest.free.fr/doc/php/lib/index.php3?page=net_http_client&lang=en

3) read up on the curl_ functions which automate some of this process and give you ssl to boot (unix only)

php manual [man]curl[/man] functions

4) make sure it must be a post - if it can be GET you can simply fopen() to the remote script and put any variables in the ?var=val&var=val form

aarce

Hi ednark and thanks. I will review this info
Hi stolzyboy, I would like to use Linux (RedHat). But if there is a way to doit win compatible also, it will be better.

Amado

stolzyboy

it will be easier to use nix anyway

what you can do is setup the script how you want, then use javascript to autosubmit the form when the page loads

then you will need to use cron to run the page, you can set it to run anywhere from once a year to once every five minutes

then you use wget or lynx(need to install lynx) to run the php page

do a search for "run php page with cron wget" and there a few tuts out there to help you

aarce

Hi stolzyboy.
I will follow ednark advice first (to use curl functions). I am reading it and looks that will fit my needs. Anyway, thanks a lot for your help

Amado