Hello. I'm pretty noob in PHP and would like to know how can I submit some HTML form got via file_get_contents(URL). For example:

<form name="someform" method="post">
<input type="submit">
</form>

so how can I submit 'someform' form.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Matìj "czech_d3v3l0p3r" Grabovský

jblanchard

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Hello. I'm pretty noob in PHP and would like to know how can I submit
some HTML form got via file_get_contents(URL). For example:

<form name="someform" method="post">
<input type="submit">
</form>

so how can I submit 'someform' form.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Click 'Submit'

Your form tag needs an action statement

<form name="someform" action="some.php" method="POST">

All of the form's variables will be available in the $_POST array

robert

No it doesn't... without an action statement it will submit to the same
URL in which it was presented.

Cheers,
Rob.
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warren

Key to this one may be understanding what is being asked. I think pe.ve.ce
performed a file read (file_get_contents) on the form from another website
and wants to be able to simulate a browser submit from his code.

If this is correct, I would recommend you take a look at CURL. There are
probably several approaches that work, but as I understand that CURL is an
implementation of the C libraries used by early browsers. If that is not
correct, someone here will set us straight. Many ISP's won't support CURL,
because it is often used for questionable activities and considered a
security exposure, but I believe CURL is what you want.

Hth,

Warren Vail

jblanchard

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No it doesn't... without an action statement it will submit to the same
URL in which it was presented.
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True, I was just eyeballs deep in coding something and answered much too
quickly.

Thanks, that was what I needed. Also I found this: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/examples/./simplepost.html. Is it somehow possible to retrieve result of that operation?

Thanks in advance.

Matìj "czech_d3v3l0pr" Grabovský

tmboyd1

I believe:

curl_setopt(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);

....will send the output from cURL to the variable rather than the web browser/screen.


Todd Boyd
Web Programmer

Many thanks, Todd, and others.

Matìj "czech_d3vl0p3r" Grabovský

tedd.sperling

Rob:

There you go again -- I've been submitting forms for over a decade
and didn't know that.

There's nothing more annoying than someone who's always teaching you
something. :-)

Cheers,

tedd

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waynnlue

Sorry to drag up an old thread, but I just saw this. Is that true of
all browsers? I'm wondering because I just coded a site to use this
behavior, then I saw that the html specification says the action
attribute is required.

Thanks,
Waynn