php headers - post and follow

Question

Hi all. Could someone help me on how to post variables and follow the post to that page?

Regards Phil

Answer 1

You can't do an HTTP POST request via a redirect. You can do a GET redirect with parameters like this though:

header('Location: target_page.php?a=foo&b=bar');

Answer 2

You can use CURL to do that:

$ch = curl_init();
$data = array('name' => 'Foo', 'bar' => 'goo');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://myserver.com/post.php');

//post the data
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

//enable RETURN_TRANSFER so curl_exec() returns result of the request
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $result;

Answer 3

if you want to pass data from one page to another and then redirect to that page, you can temporarily stash the data in the $_SESSION superglobal array and then redirect to the new page. once you're there you can then get the data back out of the array and unset() it if need be.