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Posted by Charlie King on 08/16/06 17:09
On 16 Aug 2006 08:07:26 -0700, in
<1155740846.121540.168860@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
(comp.lang.php) "Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Charlie King wrote:
> > I'm trying to send data to a remote script (a credit card processing
> > third party) from my site using POST.
>
> >From the defunct clp FAQ:
Thanks for this info... it's a shame the FAQ is defunct, it sounds
like a potentially useful source of info!
> Q. How do I post a form to another site?
> A. Use stream_context_create() to create a HTTP POST context, then open
> a connection to the site in question with fopen(), passing the context
> as the fourth parameter. Use fread() to read the result from the form
> submission.
>
> Example:
[...snip]
Thanks for that, although it seems to have a similar effect to the
code that I posted, in that it returns the contents of the target
site, in this case to a file stream, in my case to an array.
What I want to do is to have the browser go to the target page, with
my variables, by POST. I.e. exactly as if the user had clicked on a
[submit] button in a form whose action was POST and url was the target
site.
> $f = fopen('http://localhost/test.php', 'r', false, $context);
Now that I have a filestream with the remote site's contents in it,
what do I do with it?
> In PHP 5, a context can also be passed to file_get_contents() and
> file().
Unfortunately, I have to work in PHP 4.4.0 without cURL.
> Although stream_context_create() is available since PHP 4.3.0, support
> for HTTP POST has only become available in 4.3.5. If you are using an
> older version, you would need the cURL functions or use fsockopen() to
> open the connection and send the request with fputs().
So I have everything I need to create a stream context with POST
support. Good, now what do I do with it?
--
Charlie
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