Posting data and grabing the result

[synted]

I have the following form

<FORM action="http://domain/cgis/search.cgi" method="post">
  <TABLE width="210" border=3 frame=box style="color: orange; background: black">
    <!--DWLayoutTable-->
    <TR>
      <TD width="62" height="23"> </TD>
      <TD width="128"> </TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD height="28" align=right valign="top"><b>Source:</b></TD>
      <TD valign="top"><select name=provider>
        <option value="1">1</option>
        <option value="2">2</option>
        <option value="3">3</option>
        </select>
        *</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align=right><b>Number:</b></TD>
      <TD><INPUT type=text maxlength=8 size=8 name=Ticket>
        *</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD align=right><b>Mode:</b></TD>
      <TD><select name=Mode>
          <option selected value=Details>Details</option>
          <option value=Status>Status</option>
        </select>
        *</TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD height="28" colspan=2 align=center valign="top"><INPUT type=submit value=Send></TD>
    </TR>
    <TR>
      <TD height="1"></TD>
      <TD></TD>
    </TR>
  </TABLE>
  </p>
</FORM>

 

I need to grab the data that i get (xml) so i can reuse them in a better way. Can anyone help?

 

Thanks in advanced.

[samshel]

Hi,

 

You cannot use a normal form to submit to a third party URL and grab the data as after you submit the form, the execution will go to the third party page on which you dont have a control. Try CURL library in PHP. It will be very simple using CURL. For parsing XML you get you can check out PEAR Classes.

 

HTH

SamShel

[lordfrikk]

If the form was pointing to your script, which would in turn do a POST request to 3rd party URL, then it would work.