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

From: Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:17:06 +0000
Subject: Re: Using PHP to POST a form (and go to the page)?
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No, that'll send the user to the page, but not as if they had just POSTed a form to that page (i.e. $HTTP_POST_VARS will be empty). Thanks, JRB jeremy brand <jeremy@nirvani.net> wrote: > > > 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 -- ls

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