[SOLVED] Sending an HTTP request

[LemonInflux]

Hello. I'm playing with Google's YouTube Data API (without using the Zend Framework), and I need to perform a POST HTTP request on a URL.

 

My question is - do I use http_post_data() or http_request(). And can someone give me a description of the parameters with a bit more detail than the php manual? For example, on http_post_data:

 

 

url

 

    URL  <-- Simple enough

data

 

    String containing the pre-encoded post data <-- What?

options

 

    request options <-- I'm guessing the headers to send?

info

 

    Request/response information <-- links to http_get()? but I need to do a post request

 

Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Tom.

 

 

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[kenrbnsn]

You probably want to use cUrl functions.

 

Ken

[LemonInflux]

Nope - needs to be an HTTP POST request. I don't think cURL can do that. Or can it?

 

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[kenrbnsn]

Yes, you can do both posts & gets with curl.

 

Ken

[LemonInflux]

Is there no other way except cURL? cURL needs to be activated as an extension right? And I'm pretty certain a host I use doesn't support cURL.

 

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[kenrbnsn]

Did you look at the documentation on Google? There are examples written in PHP there. Study them.

 

Ken

[448191]

If cURL is not supported, you can use fsockopen().

[LemonInflux]

Did you look at the documentation on Google? There are examples written in PHP there. Study them.

 

Ken

 

It's all based around the Zend Framework GData module.

 

Hello. I'm playing with Google's YouTube Data API (without using the Zend Framework), and I need to perform a POST HTTP request on a URL.

 

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[448191]

So? Just take the required classes.

[LemonInflux]

But it's built onto the framework. I thought I had to include it all to use bits, because it was all linked.

 

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[448191]

No. You might need some additional classes, but definitely not the whole framework.

[LemonInflux]

Ah ok. My initial intention was to try and build a youtube data API class without using the zend framework (so I had something I had built to feel proud of etc ) but I guess, for now at least, this seems an infinitely simpler option.

 

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