Is there any way to send variables to an entirely different URL?

tentaguasu

I'm calling a PHP script and want that script to then send data to an ASP script on another site.

I think the method would be GET, since what I'm trying to reproduce is the same effect that would take place if I did something like this:

http://www.test.com/test.asp?name=drew&id=100

In other words, I want my PHP script to be called and execute something that will have the same effect as having a browser go to http://www.test.com/test.asp?name=drew&id=100 and send the data that way.

The PHP script is NOT being called from inside of a browser window!!

Thanks for ANY help on this!!

ClosetGeek

tentaguasu wrote:
Is there any way to send variables to an entirely different URL?

I'm calling a PHP script and want that script to then send data to an ASP script on another site.

I think the method would be GET, since what I'm trying to reproduce is the same effect that would take place if I did something like this:

http://www.test.com/test.asp?name=drew&id=100

In other words, I want my PHP script to be called and execute something that will have the same effect as having a browser go to http://www.test.com/test.asp?name=drew&id=100 and send the data that way.

The PHP script is NOT being called from inside of a browser window!!

Thanks for ANY help on this!!

header("Location: http://www.test.com/test.asp?name=drew&id=100");

Or, if you dont want to redirect the browser or show the contents of test.asp

file("http://www.test.com/test.asp?name=drew&id=100");

If you would like to show the content without leaving your site you can use include().

justsomeone

When you say that the script isn't being called form inside a browser window, I assume you mean it's being run from the command line? In that case, header() won't work. file() should do it or you can use curl()

tentaguasu

Thanks, I really appreciate the replies... I'll give it a try right now and report back.

Actually I'm not calling it from the command line, but from a Flash Movie. It's a Flash based quiz that totals up some numbers and then sends them to a PHP script.

That script does some things, but what I also need it to do is force a subscribe request to an ASP mailing list script from another location. I can't seem to get it to send that straight from the Flash piece, so I'm trying to get the PHP script to do it.

tentaguasu

None of these did the trick - I get a "URL file-access is disabled" message. header does nothing...

Any workaround?

wilku

maybe [man]fsockopen[/man] would help. There's an example in php manual of using it for sending GET to another server.

ClosetGeek

tentaguasu wrote:
Thanks, I really appreciate the replies... I'll give it a try right now and report back.

Actually I'm not calling it from the command line, but from a Flash Movie. It's a Flash based quiz that totals up some numbers and then sends them to a PHP script.

That script does some things, but what I also need it to do is force a subscribe request to an ASP mailing list script from another location. I can't seem to get it to send that straight from the Flash piece, so I'm trying to get the PHP script to do it.

By the sound of it you might not have allow_url_fopen active in your php.ini file. Try using cURL or sockets. cURL would be easiest if you have access to it. With fsockopen you would have to construct an entire http request. It would look something like this

 
$request = "GET /test.asp?name=drew&id=100 HTTP/1.0\r\n".
            "Host: www.test.com\r\n".
 		    "\r\n";


$fp = fsockopen ("www.test.com", 80);

fputs ($fp, $request);
while (!feof($fp))
{	echo fgets ($fp,128);
}

fclose ($fp);

ClosetGeek

Im assuming flash wont let you do this because it is not on the same host, right?

In action script do this

loadVariables("http://www.yourdomain.com/thephpscript.php?name=drew&id=100", "GET");

Then in thephpscript.php,

<?php 


$request = "GET /test.asp?name=".$_GET['name']."&id=".$_GET['id']." HTTP/1.0\r\n". 
           "Host: www.test.com\r\n". 
           "\r\n"; 


$fp = fsockopen ("www.test.com", 80); 

fputs ($fp, $request); 
while (!feof($fp)) 
{    echo fgets ($fp,128); 
} 

fclose ($fp);


?>

you might be able to use javascript in flash as a workaround

tentaguasu

That nailed it! Thank you so much!