Php Post

I originally was using a simple php script which used wget to load another php page with variables, however this is not longer working and I have to use POST instead. Is there a way to get php to POST variables to a URL ?

 

Didn't explain it very well, but I hope you understand

 

You can use cURL to POST data from PHP:
http://php.net/curl

Take a look at the CURLOPT_POST and CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS settings:
http://php.net/curl_setopt

 

Or use stream_context_create() if you don't have cURL.

 

I'll give it a go

 

Needs PHP 5: (Only use if you don't have cURL)

function http_post($url, array $data, $get_response = false)
{
	$data = http_build_query($data, '', '&');
	$urlinfo = @parse_url($url);
	
	if (!$fp = @fopen($url, 'rb', false, stream_context_create(array(
		'http' => array(
			'method'     => 'POST',
			'header'     => "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" .
							"Content-Length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n" .
							"Referer: {$urlinfo['scheme']}://{$urlinfo['host']}/",
			'content'    => $data,
			'user_agent' => $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
		)
	))))
	{
		trigger_error(sprintf('Unable to open URL %s', $url), E_USER_WARNING);
		return false;
	}
	
	if ($get_response)
	{
		$response = '';
		while (!feof($fp) AND !connection_aborted())
		{
			$response .= fgets($fp);
		}
	}
	
	fclose($fp);
	return $get_response ? $response : true;
}

PHP:

Usage example:

$url = 'http://example.com/login.php';
$return_response = true;
$data = array(
    'username' => 'foo',
    'password' => 'bar'
);

echo http_post($url, $data, $return_response);

PHP: