Dear All pls help me I'm totaly new with php and i tried many examples with fsockopen but they all fail and even now i don't know if it's a code problem or conection problem i need a tested script that do the second job so i can figure out where is the problem is: [b]1ST i have an HTML form that looks like below: [/b] [code] <form action="page.php" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="memberid" value="11"> <input type="hidden" name="password" value="goodpass"> <input type="text" name="key"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Activate"> </form> [/code] Is there a way that i cound hide the two hidden field to not appear when the visitor click view page source and stay able to submit the form to be send like that way http://www.domainname.com/page.php?memberid=11&password=goodpass&key=userdatainput [b]2nd sending XML string data to a webservice [/b] i have an html form that user should fill first then i have to generate and XML data type last step i should send it to a server url i.e(http://192.168.1.1) on port 5050 I should use HTTP Post method to talk with this gate way here is the XML example [code] <?xml version="1.0"?> <SIGNData> <SIGNMessage> <Submit DeliveyReport="Yes" ReadReply="No" ReplyCharging="No" Adaptation="Yes" Redistribution="No"> <ID>-1</ID> <Type>MT_TEST</Type> <From AddrType="AT_EMAIL" UserID="test" UserCredit="10">test</From> <Recipients> <To AddrType="AT_MISSDN">202</To> </Recipients> <Subject>PHP</Subject> <ObjectList> <Object> </Object> </ObjectList> <SmilFrame ID="0"> <Duration>3</Duration> </SmilFrame> <SmilFrame ID="1"> <Duration>3</Duration> </SmilFrame> <ServiceCode></ServiceCode> <LinkedID></LinkedID> <ClassType> MM_CT_PERSONNEL</ClassType> <Priority> MM_PT_NORMAL</Priority> <SubmitTime>2006-07-05T12:25:14-0400</SubmitTime> <ExpiryTime>2006-07-08T00:00:00-0400</ExpiryTime> <DeliveryTime>2006-07-05T00:00:00-0400</DeliveryTime> <ReplyDeadLine></ReplyDeadLine> </Submit> </SIGNMessage> </SIGNData> [/code] how could i pass this xml string data as a file or as a string data onfly to the sepecifed port at the specifed host?