Php stuff

[Mr_love_monkey]

ok, what I'm looking to do is from one website, during a process, make a call to another website address, passing along x amount of information, but without physically redirecting from the current page.

Obviously the recieving page can just pull the data out of the url, but how does the calling page make the request, without doing a literal forward?

(if any of that makes sense).

[punky]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

ok, what I'm looking to do is from one website, during a process, make a call to another website address, passing along x amount of information, but without physically redirecting from the current page.

Obviously the recieving page can just pull the data out of the url, but how does the calling page make the request, without doing a literal forward?

(if any of that makes sense).

Well, you can do a HTTP POST.

You'd set up a form, with a POST action, and a submit button. You would leave your inital page, so you'd have to redirect back.

For example you would do something like

initalpage.htm

<form action="secondpage.php" method="post">
<input type="text" anme="name" size="20">
<input type="submit" value="Submit Form">
</form>

and in secondpage.htm

PHP Code:

echo $_POST['name']; 


You could use javascript and open a link in another window, but popup blockers will probably block it:

window.open('secondpage.php?name=punky','newwindow');

And you would GET instead of POST to get the name like:

PHP Code:

echo $_GET['name']; 


HTH

[Mr_love_monkey]

No, it needs to be invisible - I need to make the call without disrupting the flow from the current page.

I could do it easily in java... grumble grumble...

[punky]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

No, it needs to be invisible - I need to make the call without disrupting the flow from the current page.

I could do it easily in java... grumble grumble...

If you are feeling brave, you can use PHP sockets.

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

No, it needs to be invisible - I need to make the call without disrupting the flow from the current page.

I could do it easily in java... grumble grumble...

PHP Code:

<?php include_once("http://www.example.com/somefile.php?variable=attribute");
?>

[philip.j.fry]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

I could do it easily in java... grumble grumble...

As far as I can see, you can do it in a similar way as you can in Java, you just open a remote file and read it in, then do what you want with the data.

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/appdocs/ph...ote-files.html

Originally Posted by punky

If you are feeling brave, you can use PHP sockets.

Bit of an overkill for Mr LM but just what I was looking for

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by Richard M

PHP Code:

<?php include_once("http://www.example.com/somefile.php?variable=attribute");
?>

Excellent!

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

Excellent!

Remember to leave it in double quotes so the string is evaluated.
This would not work:

PHP Code:

<?php include_once('http://www.example.com/somefile.php?variable=$value'); ?>

But this would:

PHP Code:

<?php include_once("http://www.example.com/somefile.php?variable=$value");
?>

[punky]

Oh yeah, the includes... How the hell did I miss that...?