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nonlinearmind
nonlinearmind

Reputation: 151

POST request from php

I need a php page, when loaded, to send a POST request automatically without using a submit button or any user input. I don't need to do anything with the response.

I simply need to POST "8" to www.mydomain.com

$url = 'http://www.mydomain.com/';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 8);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 120

Answers (2)

Explosion Pills
Explosion Pills

Reputation: 191749

Kind of a strange request .. you should consider using a key for the value of 8.

You can, however, get the POST body on http://www.mydomain.com/ by reading 'php://input'.

//on www.mydomain.com/index.php
echo file_get_contents('php://input'); //8

By the way you also have $curl instead of $ch on the third setopt.

Upvotes: 0

Zemistr
Zemistr

Reputation: 1049

Try this:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('data' => 8));

On your domain edit script to:

echo $_POST['data'];

Upvotes: 2

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