Asynchronous Server Side Post

[virdei]

I have a php page that will receive some variables from a form. I want this php page to then do an asynchronous server side post of some new variables to a third php page. I have done this before in vbscript but I can't seem to find a way to do this in PHP.

Page 1: has a form that will post some variables
Page 2: will receive this variables and post some new variables to a third php page. The post done from this page must be an asynchronous server side post. The post must be done from the php script.
Page 3: will receive the post from page 2 and this page is never seen by the end user.

I have done this before using vbscript but I can't replicate it with PHP. Below is my code in vbscript.

<%
xSeconPostValue = "variablename=variablevalue"

Set objHTTP = server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
objHTTP.open "post", "url"
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
objHTTP.send xSecondPostValue
%>

So the second page will post the values to the third page and this will be done asynchronously. This is all done in the server side so all actions are hidden to the end user.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated

objHTTP.send xSecondPostValue

[AstroTeg]

Check out [man]curl[/man]. Its capable of sending post and get data to a page. Your page 3 will think a regular web browser is calling it, but actually its just page 2 using curl.

[virdei]

if you have information on how i can do this using curl it would be much appreciated. Curl does seem to be like the best option but it seems a bit more complex to learn and understand. If you have code samples that would be very helpful.

[virdei]

I made some tests using curl and it is a much better option. Thanks for the help.