Re: send a POST to a URL from within PHP code

You need to open a socket: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php Think there's a demo in the comments lower down the page. Yup, here it is: function httpPost($host, $path, $referer, $data) { $fp = fsockopen($host, 80); fputs($fp, "POST ".$path." HTTP/1.0\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Host: ".$host."\r\n"); fputs($fh, "Referer: ".$referer."\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-url-encoded\r\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n"); fputs($fp, "\r\n"); fputs($fp, $data."\r\n"); fputs($fp, "\r\n"); $tmp_headers = ""; while ($str = trim(fgets($fp, 4096))) $tmp_headers .= $str."\n"; $tmp_body = ""; while (!feof($fp)) $tmp_body .= fgets($fp, 4096); fclose($fp); return $tmp_body; } "Vincent Dupont" <Vincent.dupont@ausy.be> wrote in message news:B25AE43B1720D711A8B300508BEF38BB0BDF23@osexc.ausy.be... Hi all, I would like to simulate sending a form in POST to a specified URL through PHP. I knwo how to do this from a HTML form : <form method="post" action="http://url.com/query"> blablabla </form> I would just like to simulate this because I have some processes that will change the values of the form before sending it to the 'action' URL With a GET, the fields would be included into the query strinbg, so this is quite easy. What happens in a POST? Any idea is welcome Vincent mailto: vincent.dupont@ausy.be