djarvis270 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 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. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/85117-solved-anyone-care-to-help-a-noobie/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrdamien Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Its the structure thats tricky. For example: POST /path/script.cgi HTTP/1.0 From: [email protected] 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. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/85117-solved-anyone-care-to-help-a-noobie/#findComment-434214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djarvis270 Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 Thanks for the response... still lost however. I was hoping to be able to do this using a single php script in one file... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/85117-solved-anyone-care-to-help-a-noobie/#findComment-434313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajivgonsalves Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 you should use curl more information available at http://php.net/curl Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/85117-solved-anyone-care-to-help-a-noobie/#findComment-434317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
priti Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 read this article i think its easy and quick http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/simplepost.html Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/85117-solved-anyone-care-to-help-a-noobie/#findComment-434334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djarvis270 Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 Thanks very much. I stumbled open curl a few hours after I made this post. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/85117-solved-anyone-care-to-help-a-noobie/#findComment-434744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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