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Intro

Ever wanted to send variables to another script without clogging up the URI? Well the following is a function which allows you to do just that:

Usage

To use this function just call it

 $something = sendPost($URL_of_the_file_you_want_to_pass_the_variables_to, $an_array_containing_the_variables_you_wish_to_send)

Note: The array needs to be made up in the following way:

$context = array(
	'post_variable1' => 'post_value1',
	'post_variable2' => 'post_value2',
	'post_variable3' => 'post_value3'
);

Code

function sendPost($url, $context)
{
	$context = array_change_key_case($context, CASE_LOWER);
	$contextSize = sizeof($context);
	$contextKeys = array_keys($context);
	$data = "";
	foreach ($contextKeys as $key)
	{
		$amp = "&";
		if (next($contextKeys) === FALSE) { $amp = ""; }
		$data .= urlencode($key)."=".urlencode($context[$key]).$amp;
	}

	list($host,$url) = explode('/',$url,2);
	$sock = fsockopen($host,80,$errno,$errstr,1);
	if (!$sock) { die("$errstr ($errno) in ".__FILE__." (".__LINE__.")\n"); }
	$http_request = "POST /".$url." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
	$http_request .= "Host: ".$host."\r\n";
	$http_request .= "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
	$http_request .= "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n";
	$http_request .= "Accept: */*\r\n";
	$http_request .= "\r\n";
	$http_request .= "$data\r\n";
	$http_request .= "\r\n";
	fwrite($sock,$http_request);
	$response_headers = array();
	while ($str = trim(fgets($sock)))
		array_push($response_headers,$str);
	fclose($sock);
	$errors = true;
	$errorMsg = "";
	foreach($response_headers as $response_header){
		if($response_header == 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK'){
			$errors = false;
		}elseif($response_header == 'X-UFU: OK'){
			$errors = false;
		}
	}
	if (!$errors)
		return true;
	else
		return false;
}

Enjoy and please free to leave a comment if you use this code

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