Passing POST variables w/out a FORM submit

Good day!

I am reposting this and writing it a little differently so that maybe it is
a little clearer what I am attempting to accomplish.

I have a flash movie which accesses a MySQL database to retrieve coordinates
for a map containing lots for a given subdivision.
However, the connection between the flash movie and the database was not
available when the project was handed over to me.
The flash code can not be modified and it expects a given variable to be
returned from the call to the PHP script.
This variable should be in either a GET or POST response and will contain
the plot number and acreage.
I have the PHP script written, however, I am not privy to how to create the
POST or GET response without a FORM.

If there is some way to accomplish this, please let me know.
Thanks in advance for the help.

Cheers,
M Damon Hill
Senior Technical Lead
IFWORLD, Inc.
www.ifworld.com <http://www.ifworld.com>
479-582-5100
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STATE!!!

--- Damon Hill <damon@office.IFWORLD.com> wrote:
> I am not privy to how to create the POST or GET response without a
> FORM.

GET is easy, because you can just use fopen to open a remote URL just as
if it were a local file, so long as this is set in your php.ini:

allow_url_fopen = On

As for POST, there are a number of options. You can use cURL, any of the
PEAR classes that allow you to make HTTP requests, or you can do it
manually:

http://shiflett.org/hacks/php/http_post

Hope that helps.

Chris

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