Posting to another URL

[djones5@citgo.com]

Any help from the gods is appreciated.

I can cut and paste the following into my browser URL address and have
the script execute no problem:

http://subdomain.domain.com/log?amount=10.00;orderid=123456

the domain is another site. How can I run a php script on my server
that will essentially post the above, but within my php script?

As always, help from the gods is appreciated.

DJ

[japh]

Re: Posting to another URL

look up documentation on curl. I'm not quite sure what yo u are trying
to do, but here is a sample that sends data to a payment gateway and
awaits a response:
note: not all servers support curl.

// your data - separated with &
$fields = "amount=10.00&o rderid=123456";
$url = "https://domain.com/where_you_want_ to_post.asp";

$ch = curl_init($url) ;
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_RETURNT RANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, $fields);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close ($ch);


// after you post your data, the server response will be stored in the
$response variable

[ggg@gg.com]

Re: Posting to another URL

If you don't have CURL installed on your server, you can make a socket
call with the POST method:

http://www.php-faq.com/postToHost.html

// postToHost.php
// Sample of posting to a local or remote server
// Written by Rasmus Lerdorf
// buy his book published Mar 2002
// ---------------------------------------------
//Use fsockopen to send the data:
$host = "your.host" ;
$port = 80;
$postdata = "field1=value1& field2=value2&f ield3=value3";
if ($sp = fsockopen($host , $port)) {
fputs($sp,"POST /path/to/script.php HTTP/1.0\n");
fputs($sp,"Host : $host\n");
fputs($sp,"Cont ent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");
fputs($sp,"Cont ent-length: ".strlen($postd ata)."\n");
fputs($sp,"Conn ection: close\n\n");
fputs($sp,$post data);
fclose($sp);
}



In article <1107896920.243 522.150580@f14g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com>,
djones5@citgo.c om says...[color=blue]
> Any help from the gods is appreciated.
>
> I can cut and paste the following into my browser URL address and have
> the script execute no problem:
>
> http://subdomain.domain.com/log?amou...orderid=123456
>
> the domain is another site. How can I run a php script on my server
> that will essentially post the above, but within my php script?
>
> As always, help from the gods is appreciated.
>
> DJ
>
>[/color]

[Chung Leong]

Re: Posting to another URL

<djones5@citgo. com> wrote in message
news:1107896920 .243522.150580@ f14g2000cwb.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> Any help from the gods is appreciated.
>
> I can cut and paste the following into my browser URL address and have
> the script execute no problem:
>
> http://subdomain.domain.com/log?amou...orderid=123456
>
> the domain is another site. How can I run a php script on my server
> that will essentially post the above, but within my php script?
>
> As always, help from the gods is appreciated.
>[/color]

I don't know why people keep suggesting CURL or socket when there is a
standard way to do a post in PHP: a stream context.

See this thread:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/browse_frm/thread/e6514bb0727e7b4/499b5eb9e7a6275e

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Posting to another URL

I noticed that Message-ID:
<1107896920.243 522.150580@f14g 2000cwb.googleg roups.com> from
djones5@citgo.c om contained the following:
[color=blue]
>As always, help from the gods is appreciated.[/color]

Saints, not gods. :-)

--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
It's only Usenet, no one dies.
My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
Simple RFDs http://www.ckdog.co.uk/rfdmaker/

[ggg@gg.com]

Re: Posting to another URL

[color=blue]
>
> I don't know why people keep suggesting CURL or socket when there is a
> standard way to do a post in PHP: a stream context.
>
> See this thread:
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...9b5eb9e7a6275e
>[/color]

I know why. It's because streams is a post 4.3 feature -- I didn't know
about it. I ought to keep up with things.