Re: Using PHP to POST a form (and go to the page)?
| From: | Jay Beaton | 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
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