Posted by Al on 10/25/05 22:10

Jay Blanchard wrote:
> Howdy all,
>
> 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?
> Thanks!


Here is how I do what it sounds like you want to do.

Simply serialize your POST array, i.e., $saved_post= serialize($_post)and save it [a file or session buffer, whatever]
if you are instigating a new page; if not, you have the post array saved.

Then when you want to repopulate the form, simply unserialize($saved_post) and fill in your <inputs..> etc. from the
array.

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