Custom POST Header w/PHP?

Ghostwalker

I was wondering if it is possible to create a custom header in PHP using the header() function that would POST information redirected from my form processing script and redirect the user to PayPal. Here is a taste of what I am talking about:

$req = 'cmd=_xclick';
foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
$value = urlencode(stripslashes($value));
$req .= "&$key=$value";
}
header("POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.0");
header("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
header("Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . '"');
header("Location: http://www.paypal.com");

What am I not seeing?

Kudose

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&postid=10612139

Ghostwalker

Thanks Kudos but that was not what I was looking for. I have read the post and that is how I was lead to most of the code that I posted.

What I am looking for is advice from someone who has a little more knowledge of RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (HERE) because it seems to me if you know what you are doing with the header() method you should be able to simulate a form (method="POST") submission. After all, if it can be done automatically when a user hits a submit button, a programmer should be able to do it manual in code.

mrhappiness

Kudose's link contains a link to http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/mimocsumissions.php

why don't you read it?