Re: Automajickally POST to a remote form

--- Kris Williams <ahrt@enternet.com.au> wrote: > Once upon a time I used to be able to POST form data to external > sites with ASP and an MSXML (or something) server object on IIS > and I'm wondering if there's a similar sort of technique using > PHP. You can post with PHP using cURL or doing it yourself manually. Search the archives for this, as the previous answers to this are more complete than what I have time to explain now. Here is a quick example of the manual approach: http://shiflett.org/tutorials/php_post.txt > The easiest description of what I'm attempting is: user hits PHP > page, page submits predefined search terms to Google and the > results are displayed. Since Google's search uses GET, your question about POST doesn't matter anyway. The following URL will display the search results of a Google search on PHP: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=PHP&btnG=Google+Search If you are wanting to display the search results on your own page, you should use Google's API. I believe parsing their HTML results violates the terms of use, so you might want to read that if you do not want to use the API. The API can be found here: http://www.google.com/apis/ A low-level demonstration of how the API works is given here (I plan to improve this when I have time): http://shiflett.org/tutorials/google.php Hope that helps. Chris