Send post data with php

[therealwesfoster]

Hey there, I'm wanting to send post-data to a page without having to go through a form. How can I do this?

 

I've searched google and found many functions using fsocketopen() but none of them (atleast the ones I've tried) seem to work.

 

Here is an example: Instead of having to fill out an email form and submitting it to mail.php, I just want to be able to be able to load mail.php with the POST vars already set. Similar to the GET mail.php?id=1&do=2, I want to be able to do something similar with POST data.

 

Thanks

[mbeals]

you can do it but it is ugly.

 

You need to manually open the socket and generate the request header (including the $POST vars), then send the request.  So look up socket connections and http headers and that should tell you what you need to do.

 

I have heard that the cURL extension makes it easier, but haven't tried it.

[therealwesfoster]

you can do it but it is ugly.

 

You need to manually open the socket and generate the request header (including the $POST vars), then send the request.  So look up socket connections and http headers and that should tell you what you need to do.

 

I have heard that the cURL extension makes it easier, but haven't tried it.

 

Yeah, here is the script I am using. I found it online. But it doesn't seem to be working ???

 

<?php
/* sendToHost
* ~~~~~~~~~~
* Params:
*   $host      - Just the hostname.  No http:// or 
                  /path/to/file.html portions
*   $method    - get or post, case-insensitive
*   $path      - The /path/to/file.html part
*   $data      - The query string, without initial question mark
*   $useragent - If true, 'MSIE' will be sent as 
                  the User-Agent (optional)
*
* Examples:
*   sendToHost('www.google.com','get','/search','q=php_imlib');
*   sendToHost('www.example.com','post','/some_script.cgi',
*              'param=First+Param&second=Second+param');
*/

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

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

// Do it (the arguments match what I need.. i just edited them for online purposes)
sendToHost("www.domain.com","post","/troy/mailer.php","[email protected]&subject=Hey Subject&message=My mess");
?>

[lemmin]

Try something like this:

	$fp = fsockopen("www.website.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
	if (!$fp)
		echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
	else
	{
		$out = "POST /dir/page.html HTTP/1.1\r\n";
		$out .= "Host: www.website.com\r\n";
		$out .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
		$out .= "Content-Length: ".$size."\r\n";
		$out .= "var=data";
		fwrite($fp, $out);
		while (!feof($fp))
			echo fgets($fp, 128);
		fclose($fp);
	}

[therealwesfoster]

Try something like this:

	$fp = fsockopen("www.website.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
	if (!$fp)
		echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
	else
	{
		$out = "POST /dir/page.html HTTP/1.1\r\n";
		$out .= "Host: www.website.com\r\n";
		$out .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
		$out .= "Content-Length: ".$size."\r\n";
		$out .= "var=data";
		fwrite($fp, $out);
		while (!feof($fp))
			echo fgets($fp, 128);
		fclose($fp);
	}

 

Will do. Thanks.

 

Suggestions still welcome