POST data for URL in PHP

Question

How can I send POST data to a URL in PHP (without form)?

I am going to use it to submit a variable to fill out and submit a form.

Answer 1

If you want to send data to the URL from the PHP code itself (without using the html form), this can be done using curl. It will look like this:

$url = 'http://www.someurl.com'; $myvars = 'myvar1=' . $myvar1 . '&myvar2=' . $myvar2; $ch = curl_init( $url ); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $myvars); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $response = curl_exec( $ch ); 

This will send post variables to the specified URL, and what the page returns will be in $ response.

Answer 2

cURL-less, you can use in php5

 $url = 'URL'; $data = array('field1' => 'value', 'field2' => 'value'); $options = array( 'http' => array( 'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n", 'method' => 'POST', 'content' => http_build_query($data), ) ); $context = stream_context_create($options); $result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context); var_dump($result); 

Answer 3

Your question is not particularly clear, but if you want to send POST data to a URL without using a form, you can use either fsockopen or curl.

Here's a pretty good walkthrough like ,