[RESOLVED] Posting multiple paragraphs with cURL

IronGiant

Hi, I figured out how to log in to my wiki, and now I am having trouble with multpart form-data. How do I tell CURL to let me POST the contents of a multi-line textbox? (I can post one-line textbox contents okay.)

Is this the right board, or do I need a specail cURL PHP board?

The-Master

I am fairly sure that A multi-line textbox just posts in basically the same way as a single line one. If you have firefox download live HTTP headers and see how your wiki posts the new lines. Some sites I think put in a code for a new line like %0A

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "post=hello
new line
maybe you need to do something like this though%0A This may be on a new line depending on how the wiki posts data...");

I think curl might add in %0A for you because this is the url code for a new line... Try it out. Tell me what works!

IronGiant

The-Master wrote:
I am fairly sure that A multi-line textbox just posts in basically the same way as a single line one. If you have firefox download live HTTP headers and see how your wiki posts the new lines. Some sites I think put in a code for a new line like %0A
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "post=hello
new line
maybe you need to do something like this though%0A This may be on a new line depending on how the wiki posts data...");
I think curl might add in %0A for you because this is the url code for a new line... Try it out. Tell me what works!

Actually, the problem was the double quote (") and ampersand (&) characters. I was getting the double quote from a wiki as " but could not send it back. So I used html_entity_decode to convert it back to normal. I also had problems with phrases like "cut & paste", but I used %26 to encode the ampersand.

Thanks for your all your help and moral support! :-)