Post data to a form using CURL

[abhishekphp6]

Hello,

 

I have written the following PHP code

 

<?php

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://ice.auspost.com.au/display.asp?ShowFirstScreenOnly=FALSE&ShowFirstRecOnly=TRUE');

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"txtItemNumber=EQ001125608AU");

$data = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close($ch);

echo ' length of data: ' . strlen($data) . '<br/>';

?>

 

What I want is that the page should display the length of the output page which the script has created.

 

Instead what is happening is that the contents are being displayed on my page and the length of the output string is 1.

 

What I want is that the content of the resultant page is populated in my $data variable.

 

And I don't want to display the resultant page (result of posting to the asp page) to be displayed directly on my PHP page.

 

Can you please help!

[slurpee]

You're going to want to set the "CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER" option to 1:

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);