Send data to another server

[mikaelsnavy]

Hi, I need to send some data through php, does anyone know how to do this? I just need to send a request to a server for credit card processing. I'm new to php. Also another thing I could do is to use XML through php. I already have the XML code. Thanks for all your help,
Mikael

[pbmods]

To send data to another server, you have several options, but the most basic is to use file_get_contents():

$response = file_get_contents('http://servername.tld/path/to/file.ext?option=value...');
 

In order for this to work, you must have the allow_url_fopen directive enabled in your php.ini file.

[Atli]

Alternatively, if you do not have allow_url_fopen enabled, you can use the get_headers() function.

Note that this will only return the headers of the requested page.

[gregerly]

Hi, I need to send some data through php, does anyone know how to do this? I just need to send a request to a server for credit card processing. I'm new to php. Also another thing I could do is to use XML through php. I already have the XML code. Thanks for all your help,
Mikael

One of the other options you have is CURL

http://www.php.net/curl

The link above will get you started using CURL.

Greg