Sending POST data with fopen

[deedeedum]

I have been stuck on this for hours and hours, hoping someone here can help.

I am trying to access another web page using fopen, but that web page requires POST data (I tried www.domain.com/page.php?param=1) and it won't work, so I am forced to do a POST.

I can't use CURL because my PHP Version is 4.3.x.

Can someone advise please?

Thanks.

[deedeedum]

by the way, the script I am trying to pass data to is not mine and it's on another server.

[earl-grey]

Check out Snoopy, HTTP client library written entirely in PHP.

[deedeedum]

I found 2 different scripts online and they both sort of worked but not completely.

<?php
# $host includes host and path and filename
    # ex: "myserver.com/this/is/path/to/file.php"
# $query is the POST query data
    # ex: "a=thisstring&number=46&string=thatstring
# $others is any extra headers you want to send
    # ex: "Accept-Encoding: compress, gzip\r\n"
function post($host,$query,$others=''){
    $path=explode('/',$host);
    $host=$path[0];
    unset($path[0]);
    $path='/'.(implode('/',$path));
    $post="POST $path HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $host\r\nContent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n${others}User-Agent: Mozilla 4.0\r\nContent-length: ".strlen($query)."\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n$query";
    $h=fsockopen($host,80);
    fwrite($h,$post);
    for($a=0,$r='';!$a;){
        $b=fread($h,8192);
        $r.=$b;
        $a=(($b=='')?1:0);
    }
    fclose($h);
    return $r;
}


echo post("www.domain.org/page.php","param=1");

?>

For some reason, both of the scripts return results with funky numbers and letters in them.


Here is a piece of the result with the weird letters/numbers in it:


15
<option value='blah'
f
>blah</option>
14
<option value='blah2'
e
>blah2</option>
13
<option value='blah3'
d
>blah3</option>
15

<option value='blah4'
f
>blah4</option>
18


The things in bold aren't supposed to be there and I don't see them when I try to access the page through browsers, only when I do it with the script.




so confused....

[GeorgeB.]

Why not have a form directly post to the other file on the other server like normal?

[deedeedum]

I need the data that the destination site returns as I need to do additional work to that data.

[earl-grey]

Does website return any non-Latin letters?

[deedeedum]

Does website return any non-Latin letters?

no, only regular letters and numbers, no non-latin letters.