[SOLVED] Anyone care to help a noobie?

[djarvis270]

Hi there, I need to create a PHP script, but I'm having trouble getting started:

 

The script is supposed to run from the terminal/command line and act as a front-end

to Google's Translate Text web service.

 

The page is found at http://translate.google.com/translate_t

 

I need to be able to make a POST request in my PHP script to that page

so I can have access to the POST variables, mainly the 2 text areas (original text and translated text)

and translation flag vars.

 

My question is... how?  I have been screwing around with fopen() and fsockopen(),

but to no avail.  Any hints/suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

[mrdamien]

Its the structure thats tricky.

 

For example:

 

POST /path/script.cgi HTTP/1.0
From: frog@jmarshall.com
User-Agent: HTTPTool/1.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 32

home=Cosby&favorite+flavor=flies

 

All I can do is point you in that direction - sorry.

[djarvis270]

Thanks for the response... still lost however.  I was hoping to be able to do this using a single php script in one file...

[rajivgonsalves]

you should use curl

 

more information available at

 

http://php.net/curl

[priti]

read this article i think its easy and quick

 

http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/simplepost.html

[djarvis270]

Thanks very much.  I stumbled open curl a few hours after I made this post.