Opening a remote file and posting data?

Is it possible?

[planbeta]

Is it possible to open a remote file using (file or fopen or whatever) and post data to that file/page?

I want to emulate a form being submitted with some variables to another page but don't know if it is possible?

Cheers

Chris

[bcolflesh]

If that remote script and file are chmoded 777.

[planbeta]

Unfortunately not :( Bummer.

[bcolflesh]

Maybe I read your question too quickly - If you just want to POST to some remote page, that's not a problem - put the script on your site & make the target the remote page.

Keep in mind that some guys are going to have their forms validate the referrer, so your POST data may be rejected.

[vincevincevince]

if your POST is rejected, then use cURL

[panic]

Well, it depends on what you mean by "opening" a remote file.

If you just want to read it, then yes, it's possible.

If you want to create/edit/etc remote file, you might want to consider pushing variables to a remote PHP or Perl script which then creates/edits/etc the desired file or files.

-panic

[planbeta]

Exactly what I am doing is, posting a variable (a keyword) to a search, then I want to grab this search page results and display them in the script page...if that makes sense?

Cheers

Chris

[panic]

Are you saying you want to use results from an existing search engine (such as Google)?

-panic

[planbeta]

Yes but not from an search engine, same principle though.

[panic]

Use this :

$file = file("http://domain.com");

foreach($file as $line){
//do whatever it is that you need to do to the data here
}

-panic