Question

function do_post_request($url, $data, $optional_headers = null) {

    $request = new HttpRequest($url, HttpRequest::METH_POST);
    $request->setBody($data);
        $response = $request->send();
        return $response->getBody();

}

This piece of code doesn’t seem to be working, and seems to crash my script. I don’t know if its because I don’t have the php_http module, but is there an equivalent I can use?

For instance curl? I have tried curl, but I don’t know much about it, and with curl I got a “bad request” returned from the server I was trying to connect to with a 400 status.

Anything would be good

Thanks

Tom

Edit:

function do_post_request($url, $data, $optional_headers = null) {


    $request = new HttpRequest($url, HttpRequest::METH_POST);
     $request->setBody($data);
  $response = $request->send();
  return $response->getBody();

}


echo "before";

$response = do_post_request($url, $data);
echo "After";

Doing that makes “before” appear on the page. But no “After”.

After managing to turn error reporting on I get this:

Fatal error: Class 'HttpRequest' not found in /home/sites/ollysmithwineapp.com/public_html/mellowpages/geocode.php on line 25

So I need another way to do the HTTP Request.

Answer 1

Sure HTTP extension is installed and configured correctly?

Installation/Configuration

Installation

This » PECL extension is not bundled
with PHP.

Information for installing this PECL
extension may be found in the manual
chapter titled Installation of PECL
extensions. Additional information
such as new releases, downloads,
source files, maintainer information,
and a CHANGELOG, can be located here:
»
http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http.

and maybe cURl is the way to go

• RAW POST using cURL in PHP
• PHP4: Send XML over HTTPS/POST via cURL?