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Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/25/05 19:30
On Tue, October 25, 2005 8:36 am, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> I am trying a new technique, for me, when processing a form. The form
> is
> filled out and submitted, during processing it is determined that
> there is
> an error with the posted data...such as a blank or mismatched
> password,
> I want to return the form with the data filled out using curl....as a
> test I
> did this....
>
> /* curl post test */
>
> $post_data['username'] = $_POST['username'];
> $post_data['password'] = $_POST['password'];
> $url = "http://TEST20051010/FMSRegister.php";
>
> /* assemble POST data in string */
> $pd="";
> foreach ($post_data as $k=>$v){
> $pd.= "$k=".$v."&";
> }
> $post_data=substr($pd,0,-1);
>
> $ch = curl_init();
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_data);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
> curl_exec($ch);
>
> curl_close($ch);
>
> Now, this works OK...save for one little problem that I cannot seem to
> figure out. The URL now reads
>
> http://TEST20051010/NameOfProcessingScript.php instead of
> FMSRegister.php.
>
> I am searching the curl options http://www.php.net/curl_setopt but
> have not
> found what I am looking for. Can someone clue me in?
cURL doesn't really interact with the browser directly here...
Your script is the "middle-man" between their form and FMSRegister.php
But they didn't surf to FMSRegister.php
Your script surfed there, but their browser didn't.
If you want their browser to surf there, you have to send "Location: "
headers, and you'd need to include whatever GET parameters you could
to make the request come out like you want, but, at that point,
there's not much reason for cURL to be involved...
I suspect you've over-estimated what cURL can do and what it's for...
All it does is let a program pretend to be a browser.
It doesn't let your program take over control of the user's browser.
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