Re: [PHP3] re-posting? ( initiating a secondary web transaction from inside PHP3?) From: Michael Stearne (mstearne <email protected>)
Date: 02/29/00

You can use the fopen function to open a remote url. Does cc processor need to
have a POST request? If not, you could use :
$fp = fopen("http://www.php.net/ccCheck.html?var1=$var1&name=$var2", "r");

Michael

Terry Mackintosh wrote:

> Hello
>
> I've read the manual/docs/faq and find no mention of this, but it seems
> it should be some thing that PHP can do?
>
> Problem:
>
> Our shopping cart (PHP3/PostgreSQL) needs to pretend to be a web client
> (browser) and
> make a "post" request to a credit card processing company, get the data
> back, then finish building it's own page.
>
> That is, how do I launch an outgoing web connection, retrive the data,
> and use that data to build a new page?
>
> Terry Mackintosh <terry <email protected>> http://www.terrym.com
> sysadmin/owner http://www.shell-connection.com
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