Re: Bug #12866: Speaking of Payment Processing... will PHP ever have a POST() function?
| From: | Sterling Hughes | Date: | Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:37:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Bug #12866: Speaking of Payment Processing... will PHP ever have a POST() function? | ||
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Use cURL.
-Sterling
> From: btanner@home.com
> Operating system: All
> PHP version: 4.0.6
> PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
> Bug description: Speaking of Payment Processing... will PHP ever have a POST() function?
>
> Speaking of Payment Processing... will PHP ever have a POST() function to
> post encoded form data to a server?
>
> Its easy enough to write your own, but for people not confident in all the
> header mumbo-jumbo, it would be really nice to be able to just:
>
>
> $URL="https://secure.authorize.net/secure/transact.dll";
> $Args="id=001&cost=19.96&card_number=444444&....";
> $Post_Results=post($URL,$Args);
>
> I think this would make PHP far, far easier to use for real time credit
> card processing, as well as a host of other useful things.
>
> Also, if there was some built in way to do the encryption that those
> companies always want... or at least a PHP tutorial for it... cause I can
> never figure out what they want, or how the data has to be encrypted...
> :P
>
> -Brian Tanner
>