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

The client has to initiate the POST. Maybe you could have that page contain javascript that does the POST, however, this only works on a percentage of the browsers in the world, and is not a perfect solution. -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 On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jay Beaton wrote: > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 19:27:02 -0500 > From: Jay Beaton <jrb@leagueoffice.com> > To: php-general@lists.php.net > 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 > >