Re: submitting to a remote form

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:31:35AM -0500, Joseph Bannon wrote: > > You can use fopen/fread to open the script remotely. > > > > Just append the query string onto the url something like this: > > > > www.example.com/example.php?var1=var > > > > ...and example.php will have $var1 with the value "var". That's basically > > like using GET on a form. > > > > I believe that's what you wanted to do? > > I have to use POST on the form. I wish I could use GET. For that, you'll need to open a socket. The function to do this is usually called PostToHost, and I don't know why it isn't in even the annoted manual page for fsockopen. A quick google search should turn up copies of it in all the PHP mailing list archives. But, here's the version that I use (It's been modified to support both GET and POST): function sendToHost($host,$method,$path,$data,$useragent=0) { // Supply a default method of GET if the one passed was empty if (empty($method)) $method = 'GET'; $method = strtoupper($method); $fp = fsockopen($host,80); if ($method == 'GET') $path .= '?' . $data; fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.1\n"); fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n"); fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\n"); if ($useragent) fputs($fp, "User-Agent: MSIE\n"); fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n"); if ($method == 'POST') fputs($fp, $data); while (!feof($fp)) $buf .= fgets($fp,128); fclose($fp); return $buf; } $data should be the variables of the query string, minus the question mark. That is, var1=value1&var2=value2, etc. The function doesn't encode it, so you'll need to do that. HTH, Matt