send variables from a PHP script.....

ethantinder · May 5th, 2008, 01:08 PM

How can I send variables from a PHP script to another URL using POST without using forms and hidden variables???

any idea...????

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philip_cole · June 2nd, 2008, 04:08 PM

Use GET! That is, put them in the querystring for the URL (page.php?myvar=foo), and then use $_GET['myvar'] the same as with $_POST.

If the pages are on the same site, you could also put the variables into $_SESSION, but it depends what the variables contain and what you are doing with them.

softmonaut · June 23rd, 2008, 02:45 PM

Maybe this little stream-based solution would do the trick. A stream context is created by passing all necessary params as part of an multidimensional array. Readfile() will output the result of this http-post-request.

Code:

<?php
  $params = array(
              'http' => array(
                'method'     => 'POST',
                'user_agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0',
                'content'    => 'variable=value',
                'header'     => 'Accept-language: en\r\n'.
                                'Cookie: PHPSESSID=54321\r\n'.
                                'Cache-Control: max-age=0\r\n'.
                                'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n'
              )
            );

  $context = stream_context_create($params);
  readfile('http://somehost.com/somescript.php', 0, $context);
?>

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