cURL help with POST & GET

[kid85]

I'm trying to submit form fields to a https site.

 

1. The site requires to send required fields in POST to be able to access that certain file in that web (sending in GET is not allowed).

 

2. If those POST fields are correct, then I must manually input a form on that page and click on submit.

 

I'm wondering if the whole process can be done will cURL. I tried sending ALL fields with POST, but it doesn't work. So I guess that the they have to be submitted first with POST and then the rest in GET ? Can this be done ?

 

 

$ch = curl_init();    // initialize curl handle
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://thesite.com/folder/file"); // set url to post to
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);// allow redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // return into a variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // times out after 10s
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // set POST method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $iputthepostfieldshere); // add POST fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch); // run the whole process
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;

[MadTechie]

code looks ok except $iputthepostfieldshere isn't set! which is the post field!

[kid85]

$iputthepostfieldshere is not actually a variable, I just wanted to tell where I place the actual posts.

 

The code is correct but how could I break up $iputthepostfieldshere into POST and GET. I need the first few to be in POST and a few after them to be GET. Can this be done ?

[MadTechie]

Gets go into CURLOPT_URL

 

full example

 

<?php
$iputthegetfieldshere = "?test1=one&testtwo=2";
$iputthepostfieldshere = "test3=three&testfour=4";
$ch = curl_init();    // initialize curl handle
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://thesite.com/folder/file".$iputthegetfieldshere); // set url to post to
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);// allow redirects
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // return into a variable
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // times out after 10s
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // set POST method
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $iputthepostfieldshere); // add POST fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch); // run the whole process
curl_close($ch);
echo $result;
?>

 

[sKunKbad]

Try removing:

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FTPAPPEND, 1);

 

and

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // return into a variable

 

and

 

echo $result;

 

Normally if you want to just echo the result like you are doing, returntransfer is not needed because this is the default action of cURL.

[kid85]

None of the 2 suggestions made the code work. I think its because the GET has to somehow be applied after the POST. Any more ideas ?

[sKunKbad]

I have used cURL to post to different pages in 2 projects in the past. Post fields are added to a cURL post as follows:

 

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,  array('name'=>'skunkbad',
					'lastname'=>'stinky',
					'job'=>'yes',
					'age'=>"$age",
					'city'=>'Temecula',
					'state'=>'California',
					'country'=>'USA'));

 

That's all there is to it. If it's not working, then it is something else.

[sKunKbad]

MadTechie is right about appending the GET to the URL in the CURLOPT_URL. In your initial post you said:

(sending in GET is not allowed).