How to simulate a html form "submit" using PHP ?

Thursday 19 June 2008 5:57:31 am

Hello !

I want to simulate a html form submit using php. How can i do that ?

I tried curl or fsocketopen but it return the result to my php page instead of redirecting to the POST destination url.

For example my form in html would be :

<form action="http://domain/destination.php">

In php i would like something like that :

phpfunctionSubmit($myPostVars, 'http://domain/destination.php');

This command would submit $myPostVars array and redirect to http://domain/destination.php.

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Thursday 19 June 2008 6:44:50 am

Thanx but i am stuck with POST.

This topic concern my eZSips (and new eZOgone) payment extension.

I am trying to get rid of the useless payment page which is only asking the payment type.

I want to put this choice on the basket, then the module would auto submit the correct values.

EZP is Great

Thursday 19 June 2008 7:26:30 am

You've got to do something like this:

 $query="Login=".$username."&Password=".$password."&LoginButton=Log+in&RedirectURI=";
        $fp = fsockopen($site, $socket, $errno, $errstr, strlen($site));
        if (!$fp) exit();
        fputs($fp, "POST /".$adminsite."/user/login HTTP/1.1\r\n");
        fputs($fp, "Host: ".$site.":".$socket."\r\n");
        fputs($fp, "User-Agent: $user_agent\r\n");
        fputs($fp, "Referer: http://".$site.":".$socket."/".$adminsite."\r\n");
        fputs($fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
        fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($query) . "\r\n\r\n");
        fputs($fp, $query."\r\n");
        //fputs($fp, "Keep-Alive: 300\r\n");
        //fputs($fp, "Connection: keep-alive\r\n");

        fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
        fclose($fp);

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Thursday 19 June 2008 8:11:29 am

Hi, tool is out there already
eZHTTPTool::sendHTTPRequest()

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Friday 20 June 2008 11:53:03 am

Lukasz i tried your function but its not doing what i want :

eZHTTPTool::sendHTTPRequest($uri,$port,$post);

This function is posting the data (well i guess) but i am not redirected to my $uri address like a simple html form submit would.

Well at least i don't see any change in my address bar, i am still on the php page where the function is. Am i technically on the remote site ?

Is that possible with this function ?

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Monday 23 June 2008 11:17:49 am

Hello Felix,

I am still stuck on this thing...which seems simple at the start... :\

What i try to do :

$url = 'https://secure.ogone.com/ncol/test/orderstandard.asp';
$port = 80;
$post = array('myvar' => 'test');

eZHTTPTool::sendHTTPRequest($uri,$port,$post,'momo', true);

But if i do a redirect after that then data won't be posted ?

I need to redirect to $url as if i use a simple html form with :

<form action="{$url}" method="POST"> 

At the end i could use a javascript "onLoad=submit()" but its not a clean way as my template would be loaded from extension's php code.

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Saturday 05 July 2008 8:20:00 am

Hi Mattia,

check out http://pubsvn.ez.no

Felix

Publlic Relations Manager
Greater Stavanger
www.greaterstavanger.com

Monday 07 July 2008 4:49:57 pm

> After some research on this specific topic it is not possible to POST variables on a
> different domain with redirection using PHP (cross-domain post redirection).

not with header 307 indeed:

> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
> If the 307 status code is received in response to a request other than GET or HEAD,
> the user agent MUST NOT automatically redirect the request unless it can be
> confirmed by the user

I think you want a 303 :

> This method exists primarily to allow the output of a POST-activated script to redirect
> the user agent to a selected resource.

But a 'normal' header 302 should work fine as well ?

Honestly, I don't think it's very pretty though. You are trying to have php receive a post request, perform another request in itself, and then *simulate* the response of that request to the client. Is there really no way you can force the original client to make the request that php now would make internally ?

*-pike

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