Re: Using PHP to POST a form (and go to the page)?

From: Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:10:00 +0000
Subject: Re: Using PHP to POST a form (and go to the page)?
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> I want to use PHP to create some POST vars and post to a given page > with the browser going to that page. I've seen some posts here (like > Rasmus' post) and a code snippet on Zend that use fsockopen() and > fputs() to post some variables to a page, but the browser never > actually goes to the receiving page. Unless I've used them wrong... > > What I want is the browser to act as if the the user had actually > posted the form himself. > > Anyone know how I can do this? Simulate your post, like the code you describe as having, with fsockopen, then send a header('Location: http://somewhere') to the page at which you want to end up. -jeremy brand Jeremy Brand :: Sr. Software Engineer :: 408-245-9058 :: jeremy@nirvani.net http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more Get your own Free, Private email at http://www.smackdown.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. --Dennis Ritchie

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