Posted by Tom on 06/07/06 16:48

<tony@tony.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1ef0bd3b934f949c9898c5@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
> Is it possible to use the post method to send a form from PHP without
> having to put the form in a html page?

Unless I've failed to understand what you're after, you could use the CURL
library.
It allows you to call any web page (not necessarily a PHP page) from within
your PHP.
Make sure the "extension=php_curl.dll" is uncommented in your PHP.ini.

Something like this (which uses buffering to stop the returned web page
being displayed)...
ob_start();
$ch = curl_init('https://www.mysite.com/cgi/incoming.php');
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'data01=12&data02=rejected');
curl_exec($ch);
$getinfo_results = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close( $ch );
$return_page = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

"$getinfo_results" will give an array of information telling you if the page
request was successful or not, and "$return_page" will contain the full HTML
of the request.

Tom

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