How to use Post Method in php program 1

owenewo · Nov 18, 2004

If I use header command in the php program, I can transfer data to another site by Get method as following.

<?
header("Location:

https://www.mysite.com/test.php?a=1");

?>

But, how can I use post method to do same thing? since if it's a secured site, I don't want people to see the parameters.

Could someone please help?

NightGhos · Nov 18, 2004

Do it via a form with a POST method.

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ronnyjljr · Nov 18, 2004

Hello,

When data is submitted via a post it is stored like this:

Code:

[green]//Access the variable like this
//The 'varname' is the name of the form field
[/green]
[blue]$myVar = $_POST['varname'][/blue]

If you want to pass things without forms use Sessions

Code:

[green]//Create a secure variable using the unique session_id() from the user's browser.
You can keep accessing these vars as long as you call session_start() on each of the pages that use the session_vars
[/green]
[blue]
session_start();
$myVar = "MyName".session_id();
session_register($myVar);
$_SESSION[$myVar]="Test";
[/blue]

Hope that helps,
Ron

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owenewo · Nov 18, 2004

here is the question,
How to use Post form without the click from user? since it's in a program, and can not get click from user.

chessbot · Nov 18, 2004

This cannot be performed server-side. If you want to do it, use javascript.

Code:

<html>
<body [red]onload="document.forms[0].submit();"[/red]>
<form action="page2.php" name="f" id="f" method="post">
<input type="text" name="values_to_be_passed" value="....">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Olavxxx · Nov 19, 2004

Client side can be seen by the client (visitor), so post is not the way to go, I think.

As far as I know, the client can not view the source of your header()..

I tried on my own script and it only returned:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

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