Posted by Daniel Ennis on 09/29/88 12:00

trpost@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 14, 3:55 pm, Manuel Lemos <mle...@acm.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> on 01/14/2008 07:57 PM trp...@gmail.com said the following:
>>
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>>> I am looking for a way to send data from one page to another as POST
>>> data without using forms or cURL.
>>> I have a php script that is passing a list of cases from on page to
>>> another when a link is clicked. This is working fine for the most part
>>> as a link, but sometimes the list gets very large and gets cut off.
>>> The reason it gets cut off appears to be a limitation on the amount of
>>> data that can be passesd in the URI.
>>> It looks like I can do this with cURL, but this script will run on
>>> several servers that do not have cURL compiled in and I do not want to
>>> recompile now.
>>> I found a few posts that say this can be done with PHP and javascript,
>>> but I found no good examples.
>>> To give you an example on what I am doing:
>>> <a href=case_details.php?cases=".$allCases."&priority=Low&PG=All>
>>> $count</a>
>>> $allCases is a comma separated list of numbers and can get very large.
>>> i.e. 84638,48957,58945,45375,....
>> You can try this HTTP client class. It can perform arbitrary HTTP
>> requests without using Curl:
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>> http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient
>>
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>> Regards,
>> Manuel Lemos
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> I tried the Class and it looks to be able to send POST data to a page
> and request back the results. I am looking to actually goto the page
> as if you had clicked on the link. I basically created an app that
> sometimes tries to send data to a page that exceeds the max length
> allowed in the URL. What are options for getting around that limit. I
> could see using a form if I had just one link, but I have hundreds and
> can't think of a way to just send the data from the link I click on if
> I used a form.

Then what your asking to do is totally client side and has nothing to do
with PHP. Try c.l.js.

If its not doable in JS, then you need to use a form. But honestly what
your doing is very weird, and unless this is going across different
domains, is NOT the proper solution for what your trying to do.

The only reason you should ever be doing what your trying to do is if
your sending data from like domaina.com to domainb.com where cookies and
sessions wont persist.

If your sending this from mysite.com/page1.php to mysite.com/page2.php,
seriously reconsider your design of this code and change it to be passed
by session, database key, something to retrieve the data on the next
page and not send it between POST or GET.

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Daniel Ennis
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System Administrator / Web Developer
PHP Developer for 6 years
daniel@fanetworks.net

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