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http_post_fields

(PECL pecl_http >= 0.10.0)

http_post_fields — Perform POST request with data to be encoded

Description

string http_post_fields ( string $url , array $data [, array $files [, array $options [, array &$info ]]] )

Performs an HTTP POST request on the supplied url.

See the full list of request options.

Parameters

url: URL
data: Associative array of POST values
files: Array of files to post
options: request options
info: Request/response information

Return Values

Returns the HTTP response(s) as string on success, or FALSE on failure.

Examples

Example #1 A http_post_fields() example


<?php
$fields = array(
    'name' => 'mike',
    'pass' => 'se_ret'
);
$files = array(
    array(
        'name' => 'uimg',
        'type' => 'image/jpeg',
        'file' => './profile.jpg',
    )
);

$response = http_post_fields("http://www.example.com/", $fields, $files);
?>

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[edit] Last updated: Fri, 25 May 2012

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dionmagnus at yandex dot ru 19-Feb-2010 04:11


Hear is an axmaple how to arrays as POST varibles:

<?php

  

  $response = http_post_fields('http://example.com/page.php',

                                array('val[0]'=>'val1', 'val[1]'=>'val2'));

  

                                

  echo "\$response: $response\n";                                

                                

?>

ya at kirilloid dot ru 02-Mar-2008 07:59


comment to wormholio's answer:

if you use regular expression, then use it fully:

"/HTTP\/\d\.\d 302 Found/"

Some servers still can use HTTP 1.0

wormholio at gmail dot com 28-Jan-2008 07:32


To use POST to submit a form to a site which requires a cookie for authentication you put the cookie in the $options array.  Example:



<?php



$auth="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";



$form_url="http://pirates.spy-hill.net/forum_reply.php?thread=663";



$message  = "RoboCodeDwarf now has the gold. \n\n";

$message .= "RoboCodeDwarf sez: [quote] " . `fortune -s` . "[/quote]\n";



$form_fields = array(

                     'content' => $message,

                     'add_signature' => 'add_it',

                     'submit' => 'Post reply'  );

$form_files=array();

$form_options=array( 'cookies' => array( 'auth' => $auth ) );



$response = http_post_fields($form_url, $form_fields, $form_files, $form_options );



$n = preg_match("/HTTP\/1.1 302 Found/", $response, $matches);

if($n<1) echo "FAILED\n";

 else    echo "POSTED\n";



?>

thomasxholder at compuserve dot de 07-Jan-2007 03:21


It was hard to figure out how to actually post files with this function. The "Array of files to post" is an array of associative arrays, each need the keys "name", "type" and "file". Consider this example code:



<?php

$files = array(

    array(

        'name' => 'somename',

        'type' => 'text/plain',

        'file' => $filename

    )

);

$http_response = http_post_fields($url, $data, $files);

?>

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