Question

I would like to be able to accomplish the same thing that I do in JS with AJAX all inside PHP. Is this possible?

For example, consider the following code:

$.ajax({
        async: false,
        url: "/path/to/script/script.php",
        type: "post",
        data: {
            'arg1':'arg_val',
            'oper':'get_data',
            'arg2':'arg_val_2',
            'id_number':'223'
        },
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function(data){
            est_data = data[0];
        },
        error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
            return jqXHR['responseText'];
        }
    });

Inside PHP I want to do the same thing: pass a few post variables to the script.php and have it return the string response, which I get in the success function in the above code.

I did some research and I thought I should be able to do this using http_post_fields, but I am getting this response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:42:01 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu) X-
Powered-By: PHP/5.3.6-13ubuntu3.9 Set-Cookie:
53f143479d91e79747661fcf2777a0fa=5kidtm7rcdn14o33amljgg8922; path=/
Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 15 Content-Type: text/html not
authorized.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Yes, you need to use file_get_contents() with the help of stream_context_create(). You can also use curl.

Here is an example using file_get_contents:

$options = array(
  'http'=>array(
    'method'=>"POST",
    'header'=>
      "Accept-language: en\r\n".
      "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
    'content'=>http_build_query(
        array(
            'arg1'=>'arg_val',
            'oper'=>'get_data',
            'arg2'=>'arg_val_2',
            'id_number'=>'223'
        ),'','&'
    )
));
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$refno = file_get_contents('/path/to/script/script.php',false,$context);
$refno = json_decode($refno, true);
var_dump($refno); // juse use $refno as an array.