php.net/curl should be able to do what you want. file_get_contents with a proper stream context should also work (have a look at functions like http://dk.php.net/manual/en/context.http.php ) Regards Peter On 23 April 2010 17:18, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > i'm sure this isn't hard to do, but i'm having end-of-week brain > cramps. just now, i installed a PHP package that lets me download > thumbnails of image files stored on a server -- the URL to generate > and download a thumbnail is, say: > > http://server/d1/d2/thumbnail.php?fileID=whatever&arg1=val1&arg2=val2 > > and so on. unsurprisingly, the thumbnail generation program accepts > numerous arguments and is incredibly sophisticated, and is stored in a > subdirectory under /var/www/html and ... well, you get the idea, > calling it directly involves creating quite the URL. > > instead, i'd like to stuff a wrapper script at the top of the > document root which hides all that complexity, so i can just browse > to: > > http://server/thumb.php?fileID=whatever > > and have that top-level thumb.php script make the appropriate > invocation to the real thumbnail.php script with all of those > (default) arguments and values. > > so, what would thumb.php look like? i obviously need to simulate a > POST call, retrieve the output and pass it back unchanged. thoughts? > surely this is something that people want to do on a regular basis, > no? > > rday > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. > > Web page: http://crashcourse.ca > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > ======================================================================== > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- <hype> WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fake51 BeWelcome: Fake51 Couchsurfing: Fake51 </hype> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
