How to remotely submit a form through PHP?

Question

How can I remotely submit a web form with POST variables using PHP 5.2?

Answer 1

a very basic POST curl

$data = array(
    'submit' => 'submit',
    'field_1' => 'bleh'
);

$ch = curl_init('http://example.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);


$result = curl_exec();