Post Simulation

cosminb

How to simulate a POST method???
For example: I have some data $data1,$data2
and I want to send it with the $_POST method to the script post.php. I'm guessing that I have to use the header() function but I don't know how.
😕

scoppc

I dont quite understand with the word "simulate" here.
Anyway, you can use FORM tag in HTML that uses POST as its method.

<form action="script.php" method="post">
//some fields here
</form>

You can then grab the posted data by using $_POST[] in script.php

Mark

$_POST['data1']
$POST['data2']

is this what you mean?

scoppc

data1 and data2 should be the name of form element, be it text field, checkbox, radio button, text area or anything.

cosminb

This is what I mean:
I have a script at http://www1/first.php
I have another script at http://www2/second.php
I want to send some values from script "first.php" to "second.php" using the POST method and without using
<form method="post"> .... </form>

Mark

well first of all, you know those http://www1 & http://www2 wont work for us because they are your local network, anways. i dont know if you can?...

cosminb

What local networks ????😕
Here is the first script first.php

<?php
if ($_POST)
 {
   //post part
    ... some code
 }
else 
 {
 ?>
    <!-- form part -->
    <form action="first.php" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="test">
    <input type="submit" value="submit">
    </form>
    <?php
 }
?>

My question is how do I send the value of "test" directly to the post part of first.php from another script

scoppc

as far as I concern, one way to pass this to another script is using the URL.

in post part of first.php

header("location:second.php?data1=$data1&data2=$data2");

in second.php, you gotta use $_GET[] to get it.

Another way is to use cookies or session variables.

cosminb

I don't want to use GET !!!!!
I want to use POST

scoppc

You can follow this discussion
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10244635

Anyway, there is no problem with $_GET, is there???

cosminb

Yes there is a problem with GET, because i can only use POST. I know how to do this with GET

burden

<?php 
if ($_POST) 
 { 
   //post part 
    ... some code 
 } 
else  

 { 
 ?> 
    <!-- form part --> 
    <form action="first.php" method="post"> 
    <input type="text" name="test"> 
    <input type="submit" value="submit"> 
    </form> 
    <?php 
 } 
?>

have you tried changing the form action to action="second.php" instead of first.php? if you want to pass the info in the textbox to second.php. then you put:

$testtext = $_POST[test];
echo $testtext

to barf out that info that was submitted in first.php.

if this is not what you mean then i guess i can speak for everyone by asking for an even better explaination of what you're trying to do.

jernhenrik

Perhaps it is be possible using sockets?

Open a socket to the place you wish to send it to and create the appropriate headers..?!

using fsockopen and fputs?!

remember an example from a mailing list...trying to find it...

cosminb

I don't know how to explain this in order to make myself understood.

I want to simulate a submit button beeing pressed (I want to send some data using the POST method; I want to transmit some information to another script on another machine).What I want is to open a socket to the remote server and transmit the data(this is were I'm stuck)
So please stop with those stupid newbie answer like "you could change the form action " or "you could use get". I'm not a beginer with PHP or with programming in general.
Anyway I thought I could find greater minds here , but I'll guess I will have to this on my own.
I will post the code here when I'll finish. Maybe then I'll be understood

jernhenrik

found the link...take a look at this....

http://www.phpbuilder.com/mail/php-general/2002091/1570.php

hth

cosminb

Thanks for the link jernhenrik but that doesn't work.
🙁

ahundiak

Take a look at the curl functions. They allow you to post under program control. Here is a tutorial:
http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-thome3.php

scoppc

Wow, you get so fed up with the replies huh?!
Well, just dont simplify your problem and wish somebody can get what you are actually trying to accomplish.
Did you mention anything about fsockopen() in your first post? May be it is just the problem with my eyes. hmmfff.... nvm... post the code here when you are ready.

cosminb

		$form_url    = "https://www.example.com/cgi-bin/script.php";
		$form_method = "POST";
		$form_data['variable']=$variable;
		// Build the request data string
		$request_data = "";
		foreach ($form_data as $name=>$value)
		{
			if (strlen($request_data) > 0)
				$request_data .= '&';
			$request_data .= $name.'='.urlencode($value);
		}

	// Build the request
	$url         = parse_url($form_url);
	$form_method = strtoupper($form_method);
	$request     = $form_method." ";
	switch ($form_method)
		{
			case 'GET':
				$request .= $url['path']."?".$request_data." HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: ".$url['host']."\r\n\r\n";
				break;
			case 'POST':
				$request .= $url['path'] ." HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: ".$url['host']."\r\nContent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\nContent-length: ".strlen($request_data)."\r\n\r\n".$request_data;
				break;
			default:die("Invalid method: ".$form_method);
		}
	$fp = fsockopen($url['host'], 80, $err_num, $err_msg, 30);
	if ($fp)
		{
			fputs($fp, $request);
			while (!feof($fp))
				$response .= fgets($fp, 128);
 $header_end=strpos($response,'<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC');
$header=substr($response,0,$header_end);
		     $headers=explode('\n\r',$header);
				for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($headers);$i++)
					header($headers[$i]);
								$response=substr($response,$header_end);
				$response=str_replace('href="/','href="https://'.$url['host'].'/',$response);
				$response=str_replace('src="/','src="https://'.$url['host'].'/',$response);
				$response=str_replace('src=\"/','src=\"https://'.$url['host'].'/',$response);
				$response=str_replace('background="/','background="https://'.$url['host'].'/',$response);
				echo $response;
				fclose($fp);
			}
		else
			{
				echo 'Could not connect to: '.htmlentities($url['host']).'<br />';
				echo 'Error #'.$err_num.': '.$err_msg;
				exit;
			}

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