I am playing with cURL, and I am having trouble getting it to work. I want the cURL script to post the data on that form so I can see the posted data in results.txt. Here is my form script and then my cURL script after. I changed the $url before posting here.
Edit: The problem is, it’s not posting the data. I ran the cURL script, and checked the results.txt to find the post data “WORKS” and it’s absent. Also, if it makes any difference, I am using DreamHost.
UPDATE: I GOT IT! Funny thing. I targeted to the page with the form instead of the page that processes the POST.
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"/>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="POST" name="TestForm" action="write.php">
<p />
Input anything: <input type="text" name="anything" value="Default"/> <br />
<input type="submit" value="OK" name="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
write.php code source
$stringData1 = $_POST["anything"];
$myFile = "results.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "Bobby Bopper\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fwrite($fh, $stringData1);
fclose($fh);
?>
My cURL script code source:
<?php
$url = "http://www.domain.com/submit/index.php";
$useragent="YahooSeeker-Testing/v3.9 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://search.yahoo.com/)";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $useragent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "anything=WORKS");
$result= curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
print "<br/> test" . $result;
?>
you are passing a string with CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS. Try using an array instead. Ex:
array( ‘anything’ => ‘WORKS’ );