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List:       php-gtk-general
Subject:    [PHP-GTK] Calling IE for a form POST?
From:       Benjamin Smith <bens () effortlessis ! com>
Date:       2004-11-04 0:46:00
Message-ID: 200411031646.00269.bens () effortlessis ! com
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Has anybody here used IE/COM to do a form POST? 

It's trivial to use GET, just use 

<? 
$obj=
$obj->Navigate($url_including_url_params); 
?>

But, what if you need to hide particular values so it's not in the browser 
history? (login/pw?) 

I need to do it this way, through the browser, because I am, in effect, 
logging in the user's browser to prompt them to do something. I've tried 
calling the "Default browser" with various incantations of exec() and 
backticks, but it's dog-slow. 

Here's the closest I got, and it doesn't work: 

<? 
        // AN ABORTIVE ATTEMPT TO USE FORM POST...
        $a=array(
                'a',
                '=',
                '5',
                );
        foreach($a as $k => $td)
                {
                $key=$k+1;
                $pass[$key]=ord($td);
                }  

        $browser = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application");
        $browser->Visible = true;
        $browser->Navigate(
                "http://chico.benjamindsmith.com/show.php",
                null,
                null,
                $pass,
                "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
        return false;
?> 

Has anybody successfully done stuff like this? 

-Ben 

-- 
"I kept looking around for somebody to solve the problem. 
Then I realized I am somebody" 
   -Anonymous

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