Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] PHP advanced question

[Richard L. <ce...@l-...>]

A POST over SSL (or any HTTP request over SSL) is best done with cURL.

While you could, in theory, use PHP's crypt functions to handle the
SSL handshake and calculate all the bits and bytes to do an SSL
connection "by hand" you really really really do NOT want to re-invent
that wheel.

I'm not 100% sure where you want wrong with the cURL option, but it
sounds like you pulled in their HTML which has a <form
action="process.php" > tag, but you will need to alter that to have
the FULL url to their processing page, rather than the "local" URL
they put in.

This is probably fairly easy to do, with a:
$html = str_replace('action="process.php"',
'action="http://theirsite.com/path/to/process.php"', $html);

Of course, the actual action="" parts aren't going to be that, but you
get the idea.

On Wed, December 23, 2009 12:47 pm, Lennie Jarratt wrote:
> I need to do the following and not sure how to get it done.
>
>    1. Fill in form (submit)
>    2. Gather the data and store it into my database (This is not a
> problem)
>    3. Build a custom URL string based on the form
>    4. Post the new data to a https form on another site for CC entry
> and
>    validation
>
> I have tried a meta redirect (has to be a post so this is not an
> option).
>
> Tried using CURL which gives me page one on the CC site, but when I
> hit
> submit on that page it tries to find a local page and the not CC site
> on the
> other server.
>
> Is there a way in PHP to just do a form post submit to the secure URL?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Lennie
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