Question

I’ve been trying to do this all morning I need to make either a POST or a GET call to this

URL http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php

I need it to return the text that’s on the page, I know it can’t be that difficult but I’m completely code blocked on this one,
I’ve tried using JQuerys .post and .get functions but I cant seem to return just the text on the page

any help would be appriciated

EDIT:
Ah ok so there’s a technical reason for not being able to do it. balls, Thanks for the help guys

Answer 1

There is another possibility if you need to post calls to a page on another domain. Let’s say your Javascript is being run from index.php. You might create a file called ctexter.php.
ctexter.php would use curl to make the post request to http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php, and would then output the response (the output from) send.php. So, if index.php makes an ajax call to ctexter.php, and ctexter.php is outputting the response from send.php, you have in effect achieved your goal.

You could make the curl post requests with this function:

function post_request($url, $data) {
    $output = array();
    foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
        if(is_object($value) || is_array($value)){
            $data[$key] = serialize($value);
        }
    }
    $output = array();
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    if ($result) {
        $output['status'] = "ok";
        $output['content'] = $result;
    } else {
        $output['status'] = "failure";
        $output['error'] = curl_error($ch);
    }
    curl_close($ch);
    return $output;
}

where $url is (obviously) the url to post to, and $data is an associative array containing the data you want to submit.

Then on ctexter.php you could do something like:

// Since we already built the post array in the
// ajax call, we'll just pass it right through
$response = post_request("http://cabbagetexter.com/send.php", $_POST);
if($response['status'] == "ok"){
    echo $response['content'];
}
else{
    echo "It didn't work";
}

Finally, hit ctexter.php using JQuery .post():

$.post("ctexter.php", 
{ 
    firstparamname: "firstparamvalue", 
    somethingelse: "llama" 
},
function(data) {
  alert("It worked! Data Loaded: " + data);
});