Manually make a POST request?

[703designs]

I'm writing a little Drupal module that implements a couple forms,
relaying the submitted values to a third-party site. I know the target
URL and I have all of the values that I want to submit with the POST
request, so how can I invoke this request directly from a PHP script?

[FutureShock]

Re: Manually make a POST request?

703designs wrote:

I'm writing a little Drupal module that implements a couple forms,
relaying the submitted values to a third-party site. I know the target
URL and I have all of the values that I want to submit with the POST
request, so how can I invoke this request directly from a PHP script?

I am not 100% on this but I think it can be accomplished with 'curl'.

http://us2.php.net/curl

Let me know if that works for you.

Scotty

[703designs]

Re: Manually make a POST request?

Unless Curl isn't installed, of course. On most servers, this is fine,
but I'm stuck developing on a Windows box right now. I'm tinkering
with socket functions, and I could always use this utility function:

http://www.jonasjohn.de/snippets/php/post-request.htm

Thomas

On Oct 29, 2:40 pm, FutureShock <futuresho...@a tt.netwrote:

703designs wrote:

I'm writing a little Drupal module that implements a couple forms,
relaying the submitted values to a third-party site. I know the target
URL and I have all of the values that I want to submit with the POST
request, so how can I invoke this request directly from a PHP script?

>
I am not 100% on this but I think it can be accomplished with 'curl'.
>

http://us2.php.net/curl

>
Let me know if that works for you.
>
Scotty

[Daniel Egeberg]

Re: Manually make a POST request?

On Oct 29, 7:56 pm, 703designs <thomasmal...@g mail.comwrote:

Unless Curl isn't installed, of course. On most servers, this is fine,
but I'm stuck developing on a Windows box right now. I'm tinkering
with socket functions, and I could always use this utility function:http://www.jonasjohn.de/snippets/php/post-request.htm
>
Thomas
>
On Oct 29, 2:40 pm, FutureShock <futuresho...@a tt.netwrote:
>

703designs wrote:

I'm writing a little Drupal module that implements a couple forms,
relaying the submitted values to a third-party site. I know the target
URL and I have all of the values that I want to submit with the POST
request, so how can I invoke this request directly from a PHP script?

>

I am not 100% on this but I think it can be accomplished with 'curl'.

>

http://us2.php.net/curl

>

Let me know if that works for you.

>

Scotty

>
>

You should be able to use the curl extension on a Windows box.

[Curtis]

Re: Manually make a POST request?

703designs wrote:

On Oct 29, 2:40 pm, FutureShock <futuresho...@a tt.netwrote:

>703designs wrote:

>>I'm writing a little Drupal module that implements a couple forms,
>>relaying the submitted values to a third-party site. I know the target
>>URL and I have all of the values that I want to submit with the POST
>>request, so how can I invoke this request directly from a PHP script?

>I am not 100% on this but I think it can be accomplished with 'curl'.
>>
>http://us2.php.net/curl
>>
>Let me know if that works for you.

Unless Curl isn't installed, of course. On most servers, this is fine,
but I'm stuck developing on a Windows box right now. I'm tinkering
with socket functions, and I could always use this utility function:
http://www.jonasjohn.de/snippets/php/post-request.htm

(Top-posting fixed.)

cURL works just as well on Windows. However, you should not need it
unless you need to things like accept cookies or, perhaps, deal with SSL.

You should be able to use fsockopen(), otherwise. Using google, you
can figure out how to send a POST request. The HTTP RFC, for example
might help.

<URL:http://php.net/fsockopen>

P.S.: most people prefer bottom-posting.
--
Curtis
$eMail = str_replace('si g.invalid', 'gmail.com', $from);

[NC]

Re: Manually make a POST request?

On Oct 29, 11:18 am, 703designs <thomasmal...@g mail.comwrote:

>
I'm writing a little Drupal module that implements a couple
forms, relaying the submitted values to a third-party site.
I know the target URL and I have all of the values that I
want to submit with the POST request, so how can I invoke
this request directly from a PHP script?

Use cURL or, should cURL be unavailable, check out this old post of
mine in alt.php:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.php/msg/b461757c923ebf40

Cheers,
NC

[703designs]

Re: Manually make a POST request?

Drupal's drupal_http_req uest() is great :) Problem solved. I actually
ended up using drupal_goto() because it's a GET request (this was
easier).

Thomas

On Oct 29, 8:18 pm, Curtis <dye...@sig.inv alidwrote:

703designs wrote:

On Oct 29, 2:40 pm, FutureShock <futuresho...@a tt.netwrote:

703designs wrote:
>I'm writing a little Drupal module that implements a couple forms,
>relaying the submitted values to a third-party site. I know the target
>URL and I have all of the values that I want to submit with the POST
>request, so how can I invoke this request directly from a PHP script?
I am not 100% on this but I think it can be accomplished with 'curl'.

>

>http://us2.php.net/curl

>

Let me know if that works for you.

Unless Curl isn't installed, of course. On most servers, this is fine,
but I'm stuck developing on a Windows box right now. I'm tinkering
with socket functions, and I could always use this utility function:
http://www.jonasjohn.de/snippets/php/post-request.htm

>
(Top-posting fixed.)
>
cURL works just as well on Windows. However, you should not need it
unless you need to things like accept cookies or, perhaps, deal with SSL.
>
You should be able to use fsockopen(), otherwise. Using google, you
can figure out how to send a POST request. The HTTP RFC, for example
might help.
>
<URL:http://php.net/fsockopen>
>
P.S.: most people prefer bottom-posting.
--
Curtis
$eMail = str_replace('si g.invalid', 'gmail.com', $from);