sending php variables to url

Fi_C**

how can I
send variables from a PHP script to another URL
using POST without using forms and hidden variables?

donaloconnor

I don't really get what u mean by with post and without a form. why don't u make the link include variables like:

http://mysite.com/url.php?varible1=hello&data=blah

nahdoic

if you have to use POST then you could use the method below I made before ... but why not use GET ? It would be so much easier.

[PHP]
<?php

function sendToHost($method,$host,$path,$data,$useragent=0)
{
// Supply a default method of GET if the one passed was empty
if (empty($method))
$method = 'GET';

$method = strtoupper($method);
$fp = fsockopen($host,80);
if ($method == 'GET')
$path .= '?' . $data;
fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.1\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: $host\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");
fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\n");
if ($useragent)
fputs($fp, "User-Agent: MSIE\n");
fputs($fp, "Connection: close\n\n");
if ($method == 'POST')
fputs($fp, $data);

while (!feof($fp))
$buf .= fgets($fp,128);
fclose($fp);
return $buf;
}

sendToHost("POST", "google.com", "/search", "q=fun&sourceid=boards");

?>
[/PHP]

sendToHost("POST", [address of site], [the path including file name and first forward slash but don't put in the final question mark], [the query encoded to use with a URL])

Fi_C**

No I don't necessarily have to use POST , GET would be ok .. But why would it be so much easier??


Thanks for the socket connection function though!!
Was trying to find a way to send them without using HTTP socket connection or PHP cURL extensions...

nahdoic

because then you can just do

[php]"www.google.com/search?q=".urlencode("hi there");
[/php]

so then your script on 'the other URL' would have "hi there" stored in $q.

you'd use GET because you don't have to bother with doing the sockets yourself like in POST.