here is an example that posts data to the altavista babelfish form using curl: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/file/9812.html thanks, -- *~:~*~:~*~:~*~:~*~:~*~:~*~:~*~:~*~:~*~:~* Vedanta Barooah On 8/6/05, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > on 08/05/2005 04:33 PM Paul Nowosielski said the following: > > I'm trying to setup a PHP script that will send a POST data request to a > > web form. The script needs to be automatic and not driven by a web form.. > > > > For example. > > > > I have a cron script that runs every 15 minutes. The cron script calls > > my php script on the server and sends the important data to a web based > > form without human interaction. The data has to be passed with the > > method="post". Sending the data via a URL request does not suffice. > > > > So my question in general is: How can I send HTTP POST data to a remote > > interface without using an HTML FORM?. > > You may want to take a look at this HTTP client class. Besides > submitting POST form values, it also handles redirection and cookies if > necessary. > > http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient > > > -- > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP > http://www.phpclasses.org/ > > PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products > http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ > > Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator > http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
