PHP v4.2.3 + v4.3.11

Code working on one but not the other

[jonparker83]

I'm currently using the following script to manually POST data. It seems to work fine with PHP version 4.3.11 but not on version 4.2.3. Does anyone know what why this is happening or can anyone point me in the right direction to make the necessary changes

#the following function performs a HTTP Post and returns the whole response 
function pullpage( $host, $usepath, $postdata = "" ) {

# open socket to filehandle(epdq encryption cgi) 
 $fp = fsockopen( $host, 80, &$errno, &$errstr, 60 );

#check that the socket has been opened successfully 
 if(!$fp ) { 
 print "$errstr ($errno)<br>\n"; 
 } 
 else {

#write the data to the encryption cgi 
 fputs( $fp, "POST $usepath HTTP/1.0\n"); 
 $strlength = strlen( $postdata ); 
 fputs( $fp, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n" ); 
 fputs( $fp, "Content-length: ".$strlength."\n\n" ); 
 fputs( $fp, $postdata."\n\n" );

#clear the response data 
 $output = "";

#read the response from the remote cgi  
 #while content exists, keep retrieving document in 1K chunks 
 while(!feof( $fp ) ) { 
 $output .= fgets( $fp, 1024); 
 }

#close the socket connection 
 fclose( $fp); 
 }

#Ireturn the response 
 return $output; 
} 

Thanks very much!

[coopster]

What error messages are you getting? What is/isn't happening?

[jonparker83]

Sorry if I wasn't specific enough..

I've been using the function to POST variables to a page and then extract information out of the respsonse.

With the newer version of php, there is no problem but with version 4.2.3, no response is returned

I was wondering if it was the difference in PHP versions causing the problem and if there is any way to rectify this

Thanks a lot :)