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Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP

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Date Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:46:04 +0200
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On 16-06-2012 20:25, Robert Rosenberg wrote:
> I would like to go to an external site and send a form to it via Post
> (simulating having generated the form and having the user submit it). I know
> that if I had been using GET, I could just code the parms along with the URL
> in the location command. To simulate Post I assume that I just need to use
> header to send the POST parms but I do not know the format of what to place
> in the header request (and I assume that I then use location to fire off to
> connection).
> 
> Can someone either supply me with a sample code to do this or give me the
> URL of the documentation of the Headers that get sent by Post so I can look
> them up and create the needed script myself.
> 
> Thank You.
> 


use curl  (example #2)
see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

or file_get_contents
see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php#108309

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Simulating a  Form Method=Post submission in PHP Robert Rosenberg <hal9001@panix.com> - 2012-06-16 14:25 -0400
  Re: Simulating a  Form Method=Post submission in PHP Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-06-16 14:45 -0400
  Re: Simulating a  Form Method=Post submission in PHP Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-06-16 20:46 +0200
    Re: Simulating a  Form Method=Post submission in PHP Robert Rosenberg <hal9001@panix.com> - 2012-06-16 20:10 -0400
      Re: Simulating a  Form Method=Post submission in PHP Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-06-16 20:41 -0400
        Re: Simulating a  Form Method=Post submission in PHP Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-06-17 20:14 +0200
      Re: Simulating a  Form Method=Post submission in PHP "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-06-17 14:19 +0200
      Re: Simulating a  Form Method=Post submission in PHP Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-07-03 12:11 +0000
  Re: Simulating a  Form Method=Post submission in PHP Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2012-06-18 09:54 +0200

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