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

Why not have the page post to Page B in the first place and include Page A at the top of Page B? Toby Butzon [ criticism spurs improvement ] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Beaton" <jrb@leagueoffice.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Using PHP to POST a form (and go to the page)? : That's EXACTLY my question... I want to know if I can use PHP to : simulate an actual POST... : : 1) The user goes to Page A. : 2) PHP does some background processing, creating and sending the POST : vars to Page B. : 3) The user ends up on Page B as if they had POSTed a form to it (with : HTTP_POST_VARS not empty). : : Is it possible? It's GOTTA be possible, right???? Anything is : possible with PHP... : : : Thanks, : JRB : : jeremy brand <jeremy@nirvani.net> wrote: : > : > 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 : :