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

Hello

Michael Stearne wrote:
>
> 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

Thanks, that is interesting, will keep it in mind for the future, but
no, unfortuatly the card proccessor requires the that data arrive a
"method=post".

Bill also suggested "virutal()", but again, how to "post" veriables?
also is virtual good for off-server sub-requests? or just local
on-same-server sub-requests?

Thanks for the help, other ideas?

Terry

>
> 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? 

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