PHP equivalent to XMLHtttpRequest functions

[Edward Hass]

Is there a PHP equivalent to the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function:
.......
myrequest.open('POST', url, true);
........
myrequest.send(data);

In other words, I'd like to get data from another web page that needs to
receive input via the POST method.

Thanks,
Edward Hass

[Jerry Stuckle]

Edward Hass wrote:

Is there a PHP equivalent to the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function:
......
myrequest.open('POST', url, true);
.......
myrequest.send(data);

In other words, I'd like to get data from another web page that needs to
receive input via the POST method.

Thanks,
Edward Hass

Check out the cURL functions.

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[Manuel Lemos]

Hello,

on 12/30/2007 08:09 PM Edward Hass said the following:

Is there a PHP equivalent to the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function:
......
myrequest.open('POST', url, true);
.......
myrequest.send(data);

In other words, I'd like to get data from another web page that needs to
receive input via the POST method.

You may want to take a look at this popular HTTP client class:

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient
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[Edward Hass]

"Edward Hass" <ne*******@magiciandb.comwrote in message
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Is there a PHP equivalent to the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function:
......
myrequest.open('POST', url, true);
.......
myrequest.send(data);

In other words, I'd like to get data from another web page that needs to
receive input via the POST method.

Thanks,
Edward Hass

Thanks guys. . .I tried curl, and it worked fine - except that NY State
blocks people from using the site unless they enter through their own
portal.

Public servants anyone???

Regards,
Edward Hass

[Jerry Stuckle]

Edward Hass wrote:

"Edward Hass" <ne*******@magiciandb.comwrote in message
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>Is there a PHP equivalent to the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function:
......
myrequest.open('POST', url, true);
.......
myrequest.send(data);

In other words, I'd like to get data from another web page that needs to
receive input via the POST method.

Thanks,
Edward Hass

Thanks guys. . .I tried curl, and it worked fine - except that NY State
blocks people from using the site unless they enter through their own
portal.

Public servants anyone???

Regards,
Edward Hass

Well, it's harder, but you could use cURL to enter through their portal.
The biggest problem would be if they require javascript.

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[Michael Fesser]

..oO(Edward Hass)

>Thanks guys. . .I tried curl, and it worked fine - except that NY State
blocks people from using the site unless they enter through their own
portal.

Blocking in what way? Do you receive an error message from the server?
Can you post the URL of the page that you want to access directly?

Maybe they're just checking the HTTP referrer, which is easy to fake if
a stupid server script should rely on it.

Micha

[ashore]

Guys, I dunno what this exchange is all about. Like PHP is a server-
land programming language, and XMLHttpRequest is a client-land
function, which communicates client-to-server. Which you guys all
know very well.

It appears to me that the premise of the basic question is faulty, and
we oughtta ask Edward Hass to explain his question better. (Mebbe the
rest of you have figgered it out, but I sure ain't.)

AS

[Jerry Stuckle]

ashore wrote:

Guys, I dunno what this exchange is all about. Like PHP is a server-
land programming language, and XMLHttpRequest is a client-land
function, which communicates client-to-server. Which you guys all
know very well.

It appears to me that the premise of the basic question is faulty, and
we oughtta ask Edward Hass to explain his question better. (Mebbe the
rest of you have figgered it out, but I sure ain't.)

AS

Yep, but PHP can still fetch pages (including with POST data) and
process them on the server end (or pass them back to the browser). I do
it for a few sites, like PayPal.

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[Michael Fesser]

..oO(ashore)

>Guys, I dunno what this exchange is all about. Like PHP is a server-
land programming language, and XMLHttpRequest is a client-land
function, which communicates client-to-server. Which you guys all
know very well.

Sure.

>It appears to me that the premise of the basic question is faulty, and
we oughtta ask Edward Hass to explain his question better. (Mebbe the
rest of you have figgered it out, but I sure ain't.)

IMHO the explanation was pretty clear:

| In other words, I'd like to get data from another web page that needs
| to receive input via the POST method.

If you want to do it from the client, you can use the XMLHttpRequest
object if available, from the server there's cURL and some other ways.
But the action performed is pretty much the same in both cases.

Micha

[Rik Wasmus]

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:30:49 +0100, ashore <sh*****@gmail.comwrote:

Guys, I dunno what this exchange is all about. Like PHP is a server-
land programming language, and XMLHttpRequest is a client-land
function, which communicates client-to-server. Which you guys all
know very well.

It appears to me that the premise of the basic question is faulty, and
we oughtta ask Edward Hass to explain his question better. (Mebbe the
rest of you have figgered it out, but I sure ain't.)

I only have Edward Hass's quote to go on, as I don't see the original
post. From that, to me his 'in other words' was quite clear, and clearly
something cURL could handle. The fact that an XMLHTTPRequest is the
default way in javascript of getting information from another URL has
little to do with it as far as I can tell. I grant you that I assume the
OP knows PHP only works on the server, not the client.
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[Jerry Stuckle]

Rik Wasmus wrote:

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:30:49 +0100, ashore <sh*****@gmail.comwrote:

>Guys, I dunno what this exchange is all about. Like PHP is a server-
land programming language, and XMLHttpRequest is a client-land
function, which communicates client-to-server. Which you guys all
know very well.

It appears to me that the premise of the basic question is faulty, and
we oughtta ask Edward Hass to explain his question better. (Mebbe the
rest of you have figgered it out, but I sure ain't.)

I only have Edward Hass's quote to go on, as I don't see the original
post. From that, to me his 'in other words' was quite clear, and clearly
something cURL could handle. The fact that an XMLHTTPRequest is the
default way in javascript of getting information from another URL has
little to do with it as far as I can tell. I grant you that I assume the
OP knows PHP only works on the server, not the client.

Actually, XMLHTTPRequest has its own problems - like it can't get data
from a site other than the one it was loaded from. Unfortunately, IE6
and below don't enforce this restriction, but Firefox does.

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