I have problem using cURL to POST

keiken222

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to post something to the website using cURL...

for example, http://www.domain.com/path/add_comment.php

this add_comment file takes $topic, $comment

and I'm using this..

$query = urlencode("topic=".$_POST['topic']."&comment=".$_POST['comment']);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.domain.com/path/add_comment.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $query);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

This doesn't work....How should I fix this???

Thank you for all answers

NogDog

I think you may need to do the urlencoding just on the values, otherwise you'd be escaping the "=" signs:

$query = "topic=" . urlencode($_POST['topic']) . "&comment=" . urlencode($_POST['comment']);

keiken222

Thank you for your answer...But still it does not solve my problem...

I've also tried removing urlencode, didn't work either.. maybe there's something missing....

NogDog

It's hard to say what the problem is since we (a) don't know exactly what you mean by "This doesn't work", and (b) we don't know what the target script is expecting.

keiken222

ok sorry let me explain more about it.
curl retrieve the data (result) from add_comment.php, and when this php file, when it completes adding, it will return "SUCCESS" as a result, but if it cannot add to database, or complete the adding, it will return "ERROR"

So, after running the curl script, the result that I get from add_comment.php is "ERROR", so it actually does run the script, but the adding to database thing is wrong, which I don't know why it is wrong..

If I make a form, and just use <form action="http://www.domain.com/path/add_comment.php">...</form>, this will result successfullly, it will return "SUCCESS"...

So do you understand more about my situation?