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

If you're looking to do a completely transparent (to the user anyway) POST, you can return a blank page (containing a hidden form) with a little javascript that should do the trick. Since it's outside the PHP realm, I'm going to spare the list - email me if you're interested. Toby Butzon [ criticism spurs improvement ] ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeremy brand" <jeremy@nirvani.net> To: "Jay Beaton" <jrb@leagueoffice.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Using PHP to POST a form (and go to the page)? : Yes HTTP_POST_VARS will be empty (or non-existant rather). If you : want HTTP_POST_VARS to be not empty, then then actually have to POST! : : :) : -jeremy brand : : > 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 : > : > -- : > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) : > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net : > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net : > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net : > : > : : : -- : PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) : To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net : For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net : To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net : :