jasonhoblin

that code works in the test form! thank you. imma build up the test page to try to get the data. i'll post what happens. thanks again.

i've been on reddit long enough to understand your skepticism. it is a mystery because its a test case; to see if i can get the data. i posted the test code here just as i received it, minus the actual url. they said, here are some vars, here the url to post to, now tell us what you see. the developer i spoke to said he didn't care what language i used. i have exposure to php (from years with joomla) so i'm trying this. again, maybe i'm overcompliating it. does php have a simple post and simple get script? here are two sample i found i think i'm looking for: <?php printArray($_POST); /* * $pad='' gives $pad a default value, meaning we don't have * to pass printArray a value for it if we don't want to if we're * happy with the given default value (no padding) */ function printArray($array, $pad=''){ foreach ($array as $key => $value){ echo $pad . "$key => $value"; if(is_array($value)){ printArray($value, $pad.' '); } } } ?> <?php if (${'_'.$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']}) { $kv = array(); foreach (${'_'.$_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']} as $key => $value) { $kv[] = "$key=$value"; } } ?> but when i try with a form post, i get nothing. here is the url i am using to test: http://jasonhoblin.com/userdata/connect/welcome.html

sure, i'll explain. this is a for a test project. the company is running a lotus notes, domino server. they want to rebuild it because... well... obviously. the domino server will handle all the scripting and processing for now. i just need user forms to post vars to the server and handle the return data. part of the test is, i have no idea what the data looks like. i'm guessing its csv. parsing it is step two. i need to see what i'm working with. (is offering paypal change for help considered rude or bm?)

yes, from one of the sample php html forms, i can post and display vars. but i have no idea what the data looks like coming from the server. i just what to display/print it in a blob on the response page. what var says, 'oh, a bunch of data, here!'?

i am going to create forms on the page to gather vars and then build and post the url. i think... the server i am posting to will process the vars and return a big string of data. i confident i can parse the data. i'm sure this is much simpler than it seems. i haven't done alot of direct coding. i'm a website developer, not a programmer. i usually hack it by copying and tweaking existing code in any language, but for this instance (pun) i cannot find a working example. let me know if you can help or point me in the right direction.

yes, i think i need this to create the sessions. but i dont see which var to use for the post-get

i'll looking for a snippet of code in php to post a set of variables to a url and then display the return data. example: &field1=a&field2=b&field3=3 https://www.example.com/dir/ i searched for a few hours and cannot put the code together. most of the php sites talk about post and get functions, but i cannot find a good, rather working, example. do i need two php pages, one to call the other? do i use html form submit? what tells the page to just display/print the response. i'm sure i can figure out how to parse the info but i'm stuck on first step, post-get data. thanks in advance!