[Resolved] Posting Variables With PHP

Stevil

I'm currently working on a project in which I need to post variables off to a file when opening it. In other words I need to read the data from a dynamic page which uses post variables normally from a form.

I've tried adding the variables into the URL using a GET method but this just didn't work as it was expecting the values to have been posted.

I've seen this done in perl before (can't exactly remember how off the top of my head) but need it done in php. Any help you may have to offer would be great.

TheDefender

Post some of your code. Your description is a bit confusing as to exactly what you are trying to do...

Basically in the page you are posting to, you can just call the variables out usint the global $_POST array...

$POST['variable1']
$POST['variable2']
etc......

Stevil

Sorry, my bad. Should have described it better.

I'm not looking at GETTING post values but SENDING them when opening a file to read. For example

fopen("http://www.stevil.com/blah.php","r");

I'm trying to open a file like this to read its contents. This file needs data posted to it which would normally be done through forms BUT I can't post the data to it as I'm opening it from PHP to read the contents, not actually loading it in the browser.

I think its actually done through fsocket commands maybe?

chucklarge

This example opens a file and writes to it. Make sure the file has permissions set to read/write to the file

<?PHP

$file = fopen("file_test.txt", "w");

if($file) echo "file open<br>";
else 	  echo "file not open<br>";


$_text = "some text to write?\n";

fwrite($file, $_text);
fclose($file);
echo "<a href= \"file_test.txt\">View the text.</a>";

?>

Stevil

I'm not looking at writting to a file, but posting to it as in a form posting to a page.

To explain in a little more detail, I'm not trying to open a normal file but a dynamical generated http/php file. For example I want to open the file

 
<?php
print $HTTP_POST_VARS["posted"];
?>

I want this to return the posted value, not the txt from the file itself. To do this I need to fopen it from a url so the php parser can do its wonders an return the output 😉

Hopefully this explains it a little better and people can understand what I'm talking about now.

yelvington

http://us3.php.net/curl

http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request

Stevil

thanks yelvington, this looks like what I'm looking for. Out of the office for now though so will test it when I'm back in there I assume this is right though.

If anyone else sees this an knows the fsocket way of doing this or even if it exisits (I could very well be remember something which doesn't exisit) could you please tell me as I'm still interested in looking at this.