Using sendtohost for redirect

[susb8383]

Hi,
Very new at PHP...

I'm trying to use sendtohost to do a redirection to another page, passing it post variables. I see a lot of forum posts elsewhere that say you can do this, but none of them have full examples.

So, here are my very basic questions.

If I have page1.php and I'm trying to redirect to page2.php, passing post variables, how exactly do I call the sendtohost function from page1, and how do I redirect?

Not having an example, I did this:

page1.php contains:

<?php
(send to host function)
?>
<?php sendToHost('www.mydomain.com','post','/page2.php','utm_nooverride=1'); ?>


But I just get a blank page.

So,
1) Is this syntax correct for calling the function, or do I put the call to the function inside a body tag? Do I put the function inside a head tag, or just before any html tags?
2) I was expecting to be redirected to my new page, but all I get is a blank screen. Is there something more I have to do to make the redirect happen?

Thanks.

[ronverdonk]

In order to help you or make an educated guess, show us all code, especially the sendtohost function. Without the latter we cannot help you.

And when you show code: show it within code or php tags, like stated in the Posting Guidelines at the top of this forum!

Ronald :cool:

[susb8383]

<?php 
/* sendToHost
 * ~~~~~~~~~~
 * Params:
 *   $host      - Just the hostname.  No http:// or
                  /path/to/file.html portions
 *   $method    - get or post, case-insensitive
 *   $path      - The /path/to/file.html part
 *   $data      - The query string, without initial question mark
 *   $useragent - If true, 'MSIE' will be sent as
                  the User-Agent (optional)
 *
 * Examples:
 *   sendToHost('www.google.com','get','/search','q=php_imlib');
 *   sendToHost('www.example.com','post','/some_script.cgi',
 *              'param=First+Param&second=Second+param');
 */
 
function sendToHost($host,$method,$path,$data,$useragent=0)
{
    // Supply a default method of GET if the one passed was empty
    if (empty($method)) {
        $method = 'GET';
    }
    $method = strtoupper($method);
    $fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
    if ($method == 'GET') {
        $path .= '?' . $data;
    }
    fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.1\r\n");
    fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n");
    fputs($fp,"Content-type: application/x-www-form- urlencoded\r\n");
    fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n");
    if ($useragent) {
        fputs($fp, "User-Agent: MSIE\r\n");
    }
    fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
    if ($method == 'POST') {
        fputs($fp, $data);
    }
 
    while (!feof($fp)) {
        $buf .= fgets($fp,128);
    }
    fclose($fp);
    return $buf;
}
?>
<?php sendToHost('www.squirrelfreebirding.com','post','/downloads/test.html','utm_nooverride=1'); ?>