Great code! But was wondering, how do I send binary data, such as an image?

Thank Roland!

This script works quite well, and is avoids the memory leak issue.

Bruno

Thanks for this script!

I used it along with a few hundred lines of test data in a script to test a form that I built. The script worked great!!!

You could further simplify the code by file file_get_contents() rather then fopen, (get data) fclose.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_NEW in /home/web_dev/www/passgomedia.com/HOHO.php on line 17

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thanks dude, that code really got me on to the right track, creating a XML-RPC compilant blog autopinger!

I'm stuck on PHP 4.3 so unfortunately I'm not able to get this working because stream_get_contents is PHP 5.

Is there an alternative I can use? I tried fpassthru() and it did not seem to work right.

A PHP4 alternative (if it exists) would be really nice!

I wrote a PHP 4 alternative which you can see here:

http://www.enyem.com/wiki/index.php...T_request_(PHP)

<a href="http://madhuri-dixit.110mb.com">Madhuri Dixit</a> likes this cool tutorial. Madhuri was previously using cURL. Now Dixit will do it with vanilla PHP

I don't understand what we have to put into $data, I tried some requests like:

$data = "name1=info1&name2=info2$name3=info3";

But it doesn't work... what do we have to do?

Hi,

Same as Jack, I'm not sure what to put in $data, is it just an array or http_build_query()?

Another question, will the function redirect the page to new url?

Hey Wez, are you the dr. Evil from http://www.hatebook.org?

Try this for the data:

$data = array ('username' => $username, 'first_name' => $first_name, 'last_name' = $last_name);

$data = http_build_query($data);

Hey...

Could someone please help me with HTTPS POST request?

What changes do I need to make to change a request from HTTP to HTTPS?

Hi,

I am using the script to try and interact with the Google Calendar API which requires the content type to be set as "application/atom+xml".

I have used the option headers parameter to try and do this, but the response coming back from Google is claiming the Content-Type is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".

How should I be adding the information to the headers parameter correctly? I have tried using an array ($Headers = Array('Content-Type'=> 'application/atom+xml');) and also just entering the string "Content-Type: application/atom+xml" with no luck.

Any ideas where I could be going wrong?

Hi,

Awesome function... just one thing... may be a dumb question but how do I retrieve the response as a variable to work with.

ie. (This is just the end of my code)

<?php
 
echo do_post_request($url, $prepd_data);
echo("Status = " . $response['Status']);
 
?>

The data that I'm requesting is returning fine and always contains a 'Status' value, which you can see I'm trying to get hold of in the above code. Above I'm trying '$response' but it's not working.

If you can see what I'm trying to explain, anyone have any help?

Thanks

The same as Sumedh Inamdar, will HTTPS work too?

Here is a library that is working using php4 HTTP POST and GET.

sample code included.

Tested, OK.

<a href="http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3105.html" title="HTTP retriever class">http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3105.html</a>

Hi Wez,

I've seen your 'http post' code in many sites, but I'm having a hard time implementing it myself.

Could you please provide a usage example ?

Specifically the code keeps throwing the first exception and I don't understand why or how to fix it..

Thanks in advance.

What is $php_errormsg? It doesn't seem to be set anywhere and it's not some magic PHP variable either. So how do I know exactly what the errors that are being thrown are?

Daevid, you need to work on those search skills.

Go to php.net, search the online documentation for php_errormsg and you find this:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserv...phperrormsg.php

Yes, if you have the openssl extension loaded, you should be able to use the same trick for HTTPS.

Better leave out the @ before fopen and stream_get_contents, as this suppresses HTTP 500 'warnings'.

I'm using this when simple_xml_loadfile fails because the $_GET data is too long. Works a treat.

Example usage:

$data = array ('code' => 'tpsadd', 'id' => $id, 'text' => $tpsnumbers);

$data = http_build_query($data);

$url = 'http://' . XML_SERV0 . '/xml/ukpb_corp';

do_post_request($url, $data);

If I use this script on my web server, I am able to post to other pages on my web server just fine!

BUT when I put the same exact script on my localhost server and try to post to my web server, the post request reaches the post target page but does not pass on variables.

Why is this?

Thanks for the script! I'm sure a few tweaks later, we'll have it working!

Hi

I am trying to go to another url using your script, but I cant figure out how to make the changes.

The goal is to redirect my visitor to another url with the post values hidden. Can you give me a hint?

Thanks!

Fredric

PH P's HTTP wrapper will automatically fill out the Content-Length header based on the length of the $data that you pass in. It will also automatically set the Content-Type to application/x-WWW-form-URL encoded if you don't specify one in the $optional_headers. I have used the option headers parameter to try and do this, but the response coming back from Google is claiming the Content-Type is "application/x-WWW-form-URL encoded"......

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I saw another example posted on php.net, which seemed to be quite a pretty solution, at the page introducing the "HTTP context options"

http://www.php.net/manual/en/context.http.php

<?php
 
$postdata = http_build_query(
    array(
        'var1' => 'some content',
        'var2' => 'doh'
    )
);
$opts = array('http' =>
    array(
        'method'  => 'POST',
        'header'  => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'content' => $postdata
    )
);
$context  = stream_context_create($opts);
$result = file_get_contents('http://example.com/submit.php', false, $context);
 
?>

Hello. I think this article is very interesting. I think that your post about HTTP POST from PHP, without cURL is really good. I will try it and tell you how it show up.

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Really interesting technique. However, there is a pretty serious memory leak in fopen in php5. Making many of these requests during the lifetime of a script will definitely cause you to run out of memory.

Check out the bug here :

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32255

It's a fairly old bug, but it still seems to be open. A quick test on a server running 5.2.8 confirms that the leak is still there. Using this beats cURL in readability and succinctness, but it needs to be used with caution!

I am using a switch statement to error check an included form. When it passes I am trying to use your beuty to pass it on to a url. The trick is the url requires

<form action='http://crm.zoho.com/crm/WebToContactForm' method='POST' onSubmit='javascript:document.charset="UTF-8";' accept-charset='UTF-8'>

Here is what I got, can you help?

I didn't clean up the spacing yet cause I am just trying to get it to work.

<?
                switch($_GET[action]) {
                    //error checking for required fields
                    case "check";
                        if(strlen($_POST[bussiness_name]) > 0 && strlen($_POST[contact_name]) > 0 && strlen($_POST[email]) > 0 && strlen($_POST[phone]) > 0 && strlen($_POST[address]) > 0 && strlen($_POST[zip]) > 0 && strlen($_POST[planyear]) > 0) { 
                        //post function
                            $url="path";
                            $data="";
                            $data.="";
                            $data.="";
                            $data.="";
                            $data.="First Name=$_POST[contact_name]\n";            
                            $data.="Phone=$_POST[phone]";
                            $data.="Email=$_POST[email]";
                            function do_post_request($url, $data, $optional_headers = null)
  {
     $params = array('http' => array(
                  'method' => 'POST',
                  'content-type' => 'text/html',
                  'charset' => 'UTF-8',
                  'content' => $data
               ));
     if ($optional_headers !== null) {
        $params['http']['header'] = $optional_headers;
     }
     $ctx = stream_context_create($params);
     $fp = @fopen($url, 'rb', false, $ctx);
     if (!$fp) {
        throw new Exception("Problem with $url, $php_errormsg");
     }
     $response = @stream_get_contents($fp);
     if ($response === false) {
        throw new Exception("Problem reading data from $url, $php_errormsg");
     }
     return $response;
  }
                            print "<br> Thank-you for contacting us regarding your event.  We will be in touch soon.";
                        } else {
                            print " <span style='color: #e65a05;'><b>You did not fill out all of the required fields.  Please fill out and resubmit.</b></span>";
                            include("groupform.inc.php");
                        }
                    break;
                    default:
                        include("groupform.inc.php");
                    break;
                }
                ?>

nm. such a noob.

$optional_headers=header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");