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Reading remote pages via HTTP by sending a POST request
Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 12:33 pm
by Patricia Saura
Hi@all!
I am looking for a solution to the following:
For posting automatically in a forum I have to send information via a POST request to that forum. But I don't know how to do this. I have just recently tested reading a remote location without this POST stuff. (fopen, fgets, fclose)
Do you know any way to do this?
And maybe, you even know a way to fetch the cookie sent by the forum, so I could login with my regular ID and would not have to post anonymously...
Thanx a lot.
Greeting.
Patricia
Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 12:57 pm
by Jim
If I understand your problem, using $_POST['information_you_want']; should work.
To read a cookie as a username, this should do:
$username = $_COOKIE['cookie_name'];
I may be misunderstanding your question though.
Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 1:20 pm
by Patricia Saura
Yes, I think you are misunderstanding my question.
I'm not sending any POST-Info to my own script. There is a forum outside my server. Just like this one here. And I need to access this forum through my own PHP script. But therefore I need to send information to the forum (always from within PHP) just like a browser would, if I told him to "method=post" something to the forum.
Only, I do not want to add posts manually cause I'm starting to run a virtual company in a virtual nation dealing with bets. And these bets have to be communicated somehow. Well, as i'm not going to spam anyone, I thought of automatically posting my actions in the forum. (Besides, my free server doesn't support sendmail yet.) But unfortunately, I'm no admin of the forum server.

So it gets kind of problematic. At least for me. Therefore, I tried my luck in this forum. (Because, if you dont know anything...)
I hope my question got a bit more clear now.
It's the same with that cookie thing: Of course I have an account in the forum. It would be a bit more professional to post using that account. Because it appears slightly different from anonymous posts.

But it is not really necessary.
Necessary it (cookie thing) is for automatically transfer the won amounts of virtual money. And in the nearer future I really would like to handle this by a script too. Because it will get kind of annoying work to always transfer this by hand...
Greetings.
Patricia
Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 3:25 pm
by volka
Great! Thanks
Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 2:35 pm
by Patricia Saura
That was exactly what I needed...
Thanks a lot.
Greeting.
Patricia