is there another way to do this HTTP request in php?

Question

function do_post_request($url, $data, $optional_headers = null) {

    $request = new HttpRequest($url, HttpRequest::METH_POST);
    $request->setBody($data);
        $response = $request->send();
        return $response->getBody();

}

This piece of code doesn't seem to be working, and seems to crash my script. I don't know if its because I don't have the php_http module, but is there an equivalent I can use?

For instance curl? I have tried curl, but I don't know much about it, and with curl I got a "bad request" returned from the server I was trying to connect to with a 400 status.

Anything would be good

Thanks

Tom

Edit:

function do_post_request($url, $data, $optional_headers = null) {


    $request = new HttpRequest($url, HttpRequest::METH_POST);
     $request->setBody($data);
  $response = $request->send();
  return $response->getBody();

}


echo "before";

$response = do_post_request($url, $data);
echo "After";

Doing that makes "before" appear on the page. But no "After".

After managing to turn error reporting on I get this:

Fatal error: Class 'HttpRequest' not found in /home/sites/ollysmithwineapp.com/public_html/mellowpages/geocode.php on line 25

So I need another way to do the HTTP Request.

Curl would work, but make sure first by looking what the problem actually is. Set `error_reporting(E_ALL);` to see errors — Pekka, Oct 13 '10 at 16:50
that doesn't work for some reason... still just a blank page... — Thomas Clayson, Oct 13 '10 at 16:58
A blank page may indicate that error display is off. Check your `php.ini` file for that option and set it to on. — Victor Nicollet, Oct 13 '10 at 17:01
400 is malformed syntax. Are u sure the URL you're using is valid? — bcosca, Oct 13 '10 at 17:08
Just as I thought: `Fatal error: Class 'HttpRequest' not found in /home/sites/........com/public_html/mellowpages/geocode.php on line 25` so... how else could I do this? — Thomas Clayson, Oct 14 '10 at 08:35

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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Sure HTTP extension is installed and configured correctly?

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Installation

This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP.

Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/pecl_http.

and maybe cURl is the way to go

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Oct 14 '10 at 08:51

teemitzitrone

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that second link did it. :) Thanks – Thomas Clayson Oct 14 '10 at 10:06

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Stolen from this question. You can insert $data directly where CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS is set in place of the query string.

<?php
//
// A very simple PHP example that sends a HTTP POST to a remote site
//

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.mysite.com/tester.phtml");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
            "postvar1=value1&postvar2=value2&postvar3=value3");

// receive server response ...
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

// further processing ....
if ($server_output == "OK") { ... } else { ... }

?>

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answered Oct 14 '10 at 09:10

Pekka

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and that can take an XML string? – Thomas Clayson Oct 14 '10 at 09:27
@Thomas take how? What do you mean? – Pekka Oct 14 '10 at 09:29
basically $data is the contents of an XML file, I'm assuming it can, and I'm trying this. :) – Thomas Clayson Oct 14 '10 at 09:45
@Thomas you can, just make sure you add a field name (unless you're parsing the raw POST request on the receiving end). – Pekka Oct 14 '10 at 09:48
thanks a lot pekka :) the answer came from the link in @maggie's answer, however you were a great help, thank you. :) – Thomas Clayson Oct 14 '10 at 10:01

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 31 '11 at 03:04

I also found a solution using stream_context_create(). It gives you more control over what you're sending in the POST.

Here's a blog post explaining how to do it. It lets you easily specify the exact headers and body.

http://wezfurlong.org/blog/2006/nov/http-post-from-php-without-curl/

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 13 '10 at 17:08

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There is no HttpRequest::setBody() method. You should use the addPostFields function instead, using an associative array:

function do_post_request($url, $data, $optional_headers = null) {
    $request = new HttpRequest($url, HttpRequest::METH_POST);
    $request->setPostFields($data);
    $response = $request->send();
    return $response->getBody();
}

$responseBody = do_post_request('http://www.example.com',array('examplefield'=>'exampledata'));

answered Oct 13 '10 at 17:08

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I need to send the contents of the $data variable (which at the moment is the contents of an XML document). How would I do this? – Thomas Clayson Oct 14 '10 at 08:33

is there another way to do this HTTP request in php?

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