Passing information via POST

[jkurrle]

Is there a way that PHP can open a page and pass information to it via POST at the same time? For instance, I want my script to process some information and then refresh to a page and pass it some information.

I want to avoid sessions, as I don't know if the recipient of this set of pages/scripts will have sessions enabled. I don't want to use cookies or javascript, as that can be affected by the user's browser settings. I could pass the information along via the url and use $_GET[] to get it, but I really don't want to do that if possible.

So, I would like to pass information along via HTML's POST method. The problem is, I cannot find anything in my PHP books or in the documentation at www.php.net

Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

[Weedpacket]

[man]cURL[/man] provides an API for this and other web client operations.

Otherwise, you'd open a socket (e.g,. [man]fsockopen[/man] to communicate through, construct the request (look at any POST request packet to see its format, or see the user notes on the fsockopen page, or google for "http POST request format"), and parse the response.