To use POST to submit a form to a site which requires a cookie for authentication you put the cookie in the $options array. Example:
<?php
$auth="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
$form_url="http://pirates.spy-hill.net/forum_reply.php?thread=663";
$message = "RoboCodeDwarf now has the gold. \n\n";
$message .= "RoboCodeDwarf sez: [quote] " . `fortune -s` . "[/quote]\n";
$form_fields = array(
'content' => $message,
'add_signature' => 'add_it',
'submit' => 'Post reply' );
$form_files=array();
$form_options=array( 'cookies' => array( 'auth' => $auth ) );
$response = http_post_fields($form_url, $form_fields, $form_files, $form_options );
$n = preg_match("/HTTP\/1.1 302 Found/", $response, $matches);
if($n<1) echo "FAILED\n";
else echo "POSTED\n";
?>
http_post_fields
(PECL pecl_http >= 0.10.0)
http_post_fields — Perform POST request with data to be encoded
Description
string http_post_fields
( string
$url
, array $data
[, array $files
[, array $options
[, array &$info
]]] )Performs an HTTP POST request on the supplied url.
See the full list of request options.
Parameters
-
url -
URL
-
data -
Associative array of POST values
-
files -
Array of files to post
-
options -
info
Return Values
Returns the HTTP response(s) as string on
success, or FALSE on failure.
Examples
Example #1 A http_post_fields() example
<?php
$fields = array(
'name' => 'mike',
'pass' => 'se_ret'
);
$files = array(
array(
'name' => 'uimg',
'type' => 'image/jpeg',
'file' => './profile.jpg',
)
);
$response = http_post_fields("http://www.example.com/", $fields, $files);
?>
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User Contributed Notes 4 notes
wormholio at gmail dot com ¶
16 years ago
thomasxholder at compuserve dot de ¶
17 years ago
It was hard to figure out how to actually post files with this function. The "Array of files to post" is an array of associative arrays, each need the keys "name", "type" and "file". Consider this example code:
<?php
$files = array(
array(
'name' => 'somename',
'type' => 'text/plain',
'file' => $filename
)
);
$http_response = http_post_fields($url, $data, $files);
?>
ya at kirilloid dot ru ¶
16 years ago
comment to wormholio's answer:
if you use regular expression, then use it fully:
"/HTTP\/\d\.\d 302 Found/"
Some servers still can use HTTP 1.0
dionmagnus at yandex dot ru ¶
14 years ago
Hear is an axmaple how to arrays as POST varibles:
<?php
$response = http_post_fields('http://example.com/page.php',
array('val[0]'=>'val1', 'val[1]'=>'val2'));
echo "\$response: $response\n";
?>
