sending form post data

[james]

How can I have a php script send data to a URL as form post data from
within the script without creating an actual form in a web page.

I am working with an affiliate program (from Affiliateshop) and the
instructions are 'have your script send a form post with the name of the
form fields "AID" and "BID" and their values to the following URL string...'

Thanks

james

[Daniel Tryba]

james <[e-mail]> wrote:

How can I have a php script send data to a URL as form post data from
within the script without creating an actual form in a web page.

You are the first person to ask that question here... But not really:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?as...=comp.lang.php

:)

[BKDotCom]

and you might want to see if a GET works..
instructions could have been written by a bonehead

[Safe]

You need PEAR class (http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request)

require_once "Request/Request.php";
$req =& new HTTP_Request("{URL}/");
$req->addHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
$req->addPostData("{vaiable}", "{value}");
....
if (!PEAR::isError($req->sendRequest())) {
$response1 = $req->getResponseBody();
} else {
$response1 = "";
}