Re: HTTP POST

There are a few ways of posting data from PHP, the prefered way is using the curl libs, but the method I prefer is using sockets like so: <?php$fp = fsockopen ("www.php.net", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30); if (!$fp) { echo "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n"; } else { fputs ($fp, "POST / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"); while (!feof($fp)) { echo fgets ($fp,128); } fclose ($fp); } ?> (taken from the PHP Manual) You may want to also add some addation lines of data to send (ie the content of the form) Hope this helps Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "news.php.net" <krtye@synaptech-software.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 7:57 PM Subject: [PHP] HTTP POST > I'm a bit of a newbie to PHP and web applications so forgive me if this is > pretty basic. I need to send an HTTP POST to another website that is > supposed to respond back to the post with a simple string containing either > "VERIFIED" or "INVALID". I really don't understand how to do this, however. > I know how to get variables from forms that send me a post, but have now > clue how to read the response to a post that I send from a script. I didn't > have any luck finding this in the documentation either, so any help would be > appreciated. > > Best Regards, > > Kevin > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >