I searched for post and get to try to pull up some stuff on post but the search box kept telling me its too simple a word.. post and get.. so you cannot search for simple stuff....
So please can someone steer me to the best tutorial or help to do a post in php.. I have a file that i need to trap data before it goes to the final destination.. For example I am using a pretty normal form that is sending the data in post format.. not a problem there, but to trap the data I need to divert the normal post action to come to my php form where I will extract the data i need then i need to contine the form to its final posting spot..
So what I am doing is modifying the action to send the post data to another php form which will grab all the data and save it to a file... now I need to set up so the php will send the post on to the original action to complete the process...
So all I need to know to get this done is how to use php to reformat all the data into a POSt and send it on...
How to post using PHP.
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Re: How to post using PHP.
Not sure it this would be helpful.. but here is some of what I have been trying..
There is actually about 25 pieces being sent and I just show a few here so you get the idea..
IF this looks ok and should be working.. maybe I need to make sure my curl is working.. I think it is but not sure how to verify.
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<?php
$ch = curl_init('http://search.mydomain.com/idx/10159/userSignup.php');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "hint=newUser&action=add&phoneNumberRequired=n&passwordRequired=n");
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>
IF this looks ok and should be working.. maybe I need to make sure my curl is working.. I think it is but not sure how to verify.
Re: How to post using PHP.
Here is what I have learned and its still kicking my butt..
This really seems to work... but the data is not going to the target... only one item is transferring and that is action.
Here is the target file
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If anyone wants to help on this you can see it in action at http://vahud.com/temp1/php_post2.php
The only item actually coming thru is the action item... as you can see under results when you run it..
This is exactly what I need if I can get it to work...
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<?php
//create array of data to be posted
$post_data['hint'] = 'newUser';
$post_data['action'] = 'add';
$post_data['leadFirstName'] = 'Tom';
$post_data['leadLastName'] = 'Chambers';
$post_data['leadEmail'] = 'tommytx@earthlink.net';
$post_data['submit'] = 'Submit';
//traverse array and prepare data for posting (key1=value1)
foreach ( $post_data as $key => $value) {
$post_items[] = $key . '=' . $value;
}
echo "$post_items[0]<br>";
echo "$post_items[1]<br>";
echo "$post_items[2]<br>";
echo "$post_items[3]<br>";
//create the final string to be posted using implode()
$post_string = implode ('&', $post_items);
echo "$post_string<br><br>";
//create cURL connection
$curl_connection = curl_init('http://vahud.com/temp1/target.php');
//set options
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
//set data to be posted
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
//perform our request
$result = curl_exec($curl_connection);
echo "Result = $result<br>";
//show information regarding the request
print_r(curl_getinfo($curl_connection));
echo "<br><br>***************** Any error codes ****************************<br>";
echo curl_errno($curl_connection) . '-' .
curl_error($curl_connection);
echo "<br>***************** Any error codes ****************************<br>";
//close the connection
curl_close($curl_connection);
?>
Here is the target file
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<?php
echo "<br><br>Made it to next file...<br>";
// extract($_POST);
$fname = $_POST['fname'];
$lname = $_POST['lname'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$action = $_POST['action'];
echo "fname = $fname<br>";
echo "lname = $lname<br>";
echo "email = $email<br>";
echo "action = $action<br>";
?>
The only item actually coming thru is the action item... as you can see under results when you run it..
This is exactly what I need if I can get it to work...
Re: How to post using PHP.
Result =
Made it to next file...
fname =
lname =
email =
action = add
when you click on the link above and look at the results, you can see that fname, lname, emial, are not transferring while action=add does come thru..
Made it to next file...
fname =
lname =
email =
action = add
when you click on the link above and look at the results, you can see that fname, lname, emial, are not transferring while action=add does come thru..
Re: How to post using PHP.
Those names were not sent. Among the names target.php expected to capture, only 'action' was sent.tommytx wrote:you can see that fname, lname, emial, are not transferring
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# What was sent:
$post_data['hint']
$post_data['action']
$post_data['leadFirstName']
$post_data['leadLastName']
$post_data['leadEmail']
$post_data['submit']
# What was expected:
$_POST['fname']
$_POST['lname']
$_POST['email']
$_POST['action']