Calling cgi post form from within php

Hi,

does anyone know how to call a cgi script and pass along a post-form from
within php?

Thanks,
Thomas

--- Thomas Andersen <tandersen@hometowntechnologies.com> wrote:
> does anyone know how to call a cgi script and pass along a
> post-form from within php?

You can use cURL (if you compiled with the cURL extension), any one of the
HTTP* PEAR classes (see http://pear.php.net/), or do it manually:

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

Hope that helps.

Chris

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Hello,

On 01/10/2004 04:46 PM, Thomas Andersen wrote:
> does anyone know how to call a cgi script and pass along a post-form from
> within php?

You may want to try this class. It comes with an example to post a form
to a remote server, exactly as you ask:

http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP
http://www.phpclasses.org/

Thanks for your help guys, I got it working.

Thomas


"Thomas Andersen" <tandersen@hometowntechnologies.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> does anyone know how to call a cgi script and pass along a post-form from
> within php?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas