PHP :: Form Suffers From Premature Posting

CURL Form Posting To Self Referencing Form Action
I've successfully used CURL to maneuver around and through sites
but a new site I've been trying to work with has got me stumped.

To retrieve the data I'm trying to get a login is required. If
you go to any page in the "member" area without logging in you
get directed to a https connection and hit login.php (ie: you
end up at https://www.domain.com/login.php). The problem, I
believe, lies in the fact that the form on that page references
itself in the form action tag.

The action tag in the form is "/login.php" and nothing I've tried
has been successful in getting CURL to actually submit the data
and get me logged in. Not surprising really since you'd normally
point CURL to the action target to pass form data.

The things I've tried so far without luck are:

* Hit the main site page to pick up the session cookie then go
to one of the "member" only pages

* Gone directly to one of the "member" pages to get redirected
to login.php

Both attempts end up simply returning me the contents of the
login.php page which, obviously, doesn't help or do any good.

What isn't clear from the CURL documentation with PHP is whether
or not the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS get passed to pages after a redirect
takes place. I suspect they are but the fact that login.php
refers back to itself seems to be the real problem.

If anyone has any ideas on how to convince CURL to get me past
login.php or any other suggestions on things I could try I would
very much appreciate it.

Form Posting
1. How can I now the url that posting the form? ex: I make a php page name poster.php. There is a form that has action to recipient.php. Then I need check that the form is surely posted from poster.php.

2. Can I post a form from to the other site that has different host? How it could be?

Form Posting
i have a form that points to a document on my local site, like:

<form action="test.php" method="post">
<input type=hidden name=value1 value="something">
<input type=submit value=submit>
</form>

now, i would like to post the form data to the test.php file, from
another php file (let's say test2.php)! how to do that?

i cannot call http://localhost/test.php?value1=value1 because the method
is POST (it doesn't work)?

Form Data Not Posting
I was reading the forums and have not found the answer and could use some help. I am a novice and am learning how to do this out of neccesity for my non-profit org. I have a database with incidents that we react to during emergencies. I want to be able to have the users call up the record via ID (that works), change the status and/or details and save update mysql. It is just not saving the data. PHP Code:

Posting Form Fields
I have a form like the one below. Upon submit I would like to self post
to the same page but have the original $_POST data( which was posted to
this page from another ) also be sent along with the new form field
data. How can I achieve that? Thanks.

<form name="form1" method="post" action="<?php echo
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; ?>">
<table>
<tr>
<th><input type="text" name="fields[]"</th>
....
<th><input type="text" name="fields[]"</th>
<th><input type="submit" value="Add" name="add"</th>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Form Not Posting Variable
I have a form which has a select box form and a text box form. for some reason I can't get the Select box to pass the variable to the php file PHP Code:

Form Posting Difficulty
I'm doing a login form and i am trying to get it to post to a page that
would vary based on the username given. I have figure out how to
display all the info once it is posted. I mean i know how to select it
from the db but other than that i'm kinda at a dead end. so far i have
the following code snibblets:

Form Login

<html>
<head>
<title>login</title>
</head>
<form method="post" action="main.php?user=$_POST[username]">
// basic login form here with username and then username text box and
then password and then password box and then submit button.
// the name of the username field is username, name of password field is
password and then submit button field is submit.

Display page

Posting A Form To Another Script ?
Is there a way to "post" a form to another php script? For example
input.php retrieves some user variables then posts the results to
another script , say form.php?

I know this can be done using perl's LWP by creating an agent. Let me
know if this makes sense or not? I know I can use GET, but I want to
avoid GET for some other reasons.

Posting To Php Without Html Form
I am quite familiar how to create a php page that POSTS or REQUESTS variables sent by an html form

HOWEVER, I am wondering if it there is a way I can post variables to another php page or page in general, with php, and skip the form all together,

for example:

I have this page that POSTS information from an html form
it make $id = $_POST['id'];
this page is called formprocess.php

now what i want to do is instead of having to use the html form to actually submit this data to formprocess.php, i want to submit this data with php

I have a page called send-data.php i want this page to send the 'id' variable straight to the formprocess.php page with no html form.

Premature End Of Script Headers
My page has been up for a couple of months now and today I get this on my screen:

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, URL and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/1.3.28 Server at URL Port 80

So then I go and check to see if the server is down and lok at the error log I find a who;e page of this :

[Tue Oct 14 21:49:43 2003] [error] [client 66.150.40.222] File does not exist: /home/sml-temp/public_html/500.shtml
[Tue Oct 14 21:49:43 2003] [error] [client 66.150.40.222] Premature end of script headers: /home/sml-temp/public_html/index.php

Posting Form Data To Two Php Scripts At Once
How do i post the form data to different php files at once. I tried the
following code but it doesn't work. the data is sent only to the first
php file.

<form method="post" action="insert.php" action="mail.php">
Email<input type="text" name="email" value ="" size="20" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

Is there a solution?

Libcurl Form Posting Problem
I've been trying to write a short script using curl w/ php but can't
figure something out:

I'm simply trying to login to a website using a posted user/pass combo
to an html form (login.php) that, if correct, sends a Header("Location:
success.php").

The problem I'm running into is when I successfully login, i'm watching
the logs and it's actually executing success.php but after that's done
the screen just refreshes and stays on login.php... does this have
anything to do with the session variables that are written to tell the
system that I should be logged in?

Does this make sense? Below are my opts.

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_fields);
$curl_output=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

echo $curl_output;

-> How To Read A Form Variable Before Posting? <-
is there a way to read the content of a form variable before
a POST?

I have a form with a "duplicate" button which opens a new form
with most of the fields filled with the values of the calling one.
To do so, I pass the id of the form to be duplicated.
Example:
- I have a form with "Number = 1234567" in a "numform" edit field.
- Duplicate has a href=/duplicateform.php?id=1234567
- then the "duplicateform.php" reads id with a GET['id']

This is easy as I come from a displayed form that retrieves its
values via a SQL statement and with a specific "number" reference.

Now, once I am in this new form, I have a save button to save all
values, including the new "Number" the user would type in, say
"22222222". The save process works correctly via AJAX and saves the
record using a POST action.
But then, I still have my "duplicate" button which should now
point to href=/duplicateform.php?id=22222222
How can I get this 22222222 value from within the form itself?
I have to get it from the "numform" field, but how can I do this?

it would be something like
href=/duplicateform.php?id=<?=[value_of_field_number]?>

with value_of_field_number being the actual value of that edit field.

Posting PDF Form Data To MySQL
I am working on a script that will take information submitted from a pdf form and store the field data to a given mySQL table. I just cant figure out what is wrong with my script. I am able to get the data from the pdf form, and set it as a variable so I can work with it in php. It is displaying the proper data when I echo() it, and I get no mySQL errors. It looks like everything should work, but when I check my database, nothing has been updated....

Posting From A Form Without A Submit Button - How?
Given something like:

if ( $_POST['type_save'] == 'Save record to HTGI public DB') {
echo '<form method="post" action="populate08.php">'
echo '<input type=hidden name="kw_tarea" value='.$tk.'>'
echo '</form>'
echo '<p>permanent DB updated'
}

But there's no button to press for a submit. So how do I get this code
posted to the action=populate08 ? Without pressing a buttom but just
from the code?

Posting Form Data To Two Scripts At Once
From: "Norman Peelman" <npeelman@cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: posting form data to two php scripts at once
Date: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:06 AM

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PHP Event Calendar Posting Form
I'm using the basic PHP event calendar tutorial that is on this website, and I made a form to add the events. The problem is that the date isn't posting right into the MySQL. For the date it says: '0000-00-00' instead of what I inputed. Code:

Posting Form Variable Using Header()
I know I have seen it somewhere but cannot find how to do it right now.

How do I use header to submit post vars "without" a form.

The company I work for is using a 3rd party email marketing company (until I can get the time to build a system to bring it in house), and this company is working with me to keep the form, thank you and error page aspect on our site. I need to take the variable from the form and process them to do some validation and then send these post vars off to their page so it can be inserted into a database. They don't do any validation on their side with this setup so I want to do it on my side and use header() to submit the post vars.

Form, Posting Multiple Fields
I have a product list page, users can check the product then go to an e-mail form, that lists the products they checked.

On this, they can then chose a quantity for every product, how do I make it so when they send the e-mail, it gets the quantity for each product (using PHP mail, to send)?

The field would be:
<input type="text" size="4" maxlength="4" value="1" name="quantity">

But that wouldn't work for multiple ones? Would I use a "foreach" statement, somehow?

Premature End Of Script Headers: Main.php
Can anyone tell me about this error I am getting?

Premature end of script headers: main.php

Posting Form List Multiple Values ?
how to get the values using post from a multiple list form when more than one value is selected ?.. is it possible ?

Posting Information From A Form To A Text File
I am trying to append the results from a form to a text file. My code is supposed to print out the results on one page, and append the results to another page each time data is entered on the form and the submit button is hit. Unfortunately, it is only printing out the message acknowledging the submit button--no data on either form. Code:

Posting To A Form With Image Verification With CURL
this code keeps posting the wrong image verification code, to the form, because when it loads the form again to post the code that I retrieved the image verification code, is now changed

How can I do this successfully with curl? If you have any experience with using curl functions in php you CAN help me on this one....

Security Issues With Posting Form Contents To Server?
I'm currently reading a php book that attempts to declare the security hazzards of not screening a form's content before allowing it to be posted, whether to a database, text file, or otherwise. Honestly, I still don't get what the problem is.

Lets say magic quotes is turned on. Could someone list the major things I should still be doing to prevent security problems? For example, the book says to use htmlspecialchars(), though how does allowing the user to enter HTML tags compromise anything? The data simply gets posted as is to a database, then output as is Maybe an annoying JavaScript is output, but hardly a security breach to the server itself as far as I can tell.

Blank Response By Curl When Posting Form Data
Here is my code, and the problem:

$st="...(string to post is formed from different variables read from
file)...";
$lngth=strlen($st);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url2);
$fp = fopen("example_homepage2.txt", "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,20);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, $lngth);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $st);
$page2=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);

Posting Data To Another Form And Getting Handle Of The Opened Window.
I have posted a form to a PHP file in a new window with target attribute. My
problem is that my application should not allow user to post the form again.
User should close the window and then only (s)he can post the form again. Can we get the handle of the opened window?

If we use window.open then we will get the handle of that window but I am unable to post data with window.open.

Any idea on posting data to modal windows. Not as parameters but as $_POST.

Curl: Posting Form Variables Results In Redirection
I'm using the curl functions in php to scrape the wan ip address from my
home router (the router is an SMC product). This is a two step process:
1. post the password value to the login.htm page
2. capture and parse the content from the status_main.htm page

On the SMC's login.htm page there is a form with the following elements:
<form name=tF method=post action=login.htm>
<input type=password name=pws>
<input type=hidden name=page value=login>
<submit value='LOGIN'>

Here are three test cases - only the first two work as expected. I need to
understand why I got that third response... posting the variables causes a
the SMC to give me a redirection to index.htm which does not exist?

COMMAND LINE TEST (returns login.htm and status_main.htm accurately):
curl -d page=login.htm -d pws=mypassword http://10.10.10.1/login.htm
curl http://10.10.10.1/status_main.htm | grep 'wan_ip'

PHP NO-POST TEST(returns login.htm accurately):
$ch = curl_init("http://10.10.10.1/login.htm");
$strIP = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

PHP POST TEST (returns an unexpected result):
$ch = curl_init("http://10.10.10.1/login.htm");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "page=login&pws=mypassword");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$strIP = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
print "";

Blank Response From Curl When Posting Form Data
Here is my code, and the problem:

$st="...(string to post is formed from different variables read from
file)...";
$lngth=strlen($st);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url2);
$fp = fopen("example_homepage2.txt", "w");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,20);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, $lngth);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $st);
$page2=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
fclose($fp);

I tried both with and without POSTFIELDSIZE option, with same result.
This code works fine for strings smaller than 800 characters (actually
795 or so), but my regular string is just under 13000 characters.
I have uploaded the script to 5 webservers (including my development
machine with Win XP , PHP 5 and Apache 2.2.) and it only works on one.
The rest return a blank page to stare at on the curl post.
Is this some configuration issue, or a curl issue?

Posting Form Data And Also Allow To Download Form Data
i have a client that whats to post form data to a database but he also wants users of the script to download it aswell how will i got about doing this i thought about it that i could make it save it into a txt file then echo the download link is there any ideas? because to post it to a txt file it would be posting 2 places is there a way to do this? Code:

"Premature End Of Script Headers: Php.cgi"
I have compiled PHP 5.2.3 as a CGI binary, and this works. I can, for example,
do the following:

$ php.cgi hello_world.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.3
Content-type: text/html

Hello World!

===

However, this completely fails when I attempt to route PHP scripts through this
new CGI executable with .htaccess. My approach is this:

File: doc_root/.htaccess
AddHandler phpFive .php
Action phpFive /php.cgi

(doc_root/php.cgi links to the correct executable)

Any PHP page I visit in my browser now returns a 500 error, and the error log
contains this:

Premature end of script headers: php.cgi

It's clearly not the fault of the PHP executable itself, since it works from the
command line.

===

I have also tried renaming the link so it no longer has a .cgi extension.
Instead, I now get the following errors on all PHP pages.

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in php-cgi on line 571
Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in php-cgi on line 571
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in php-cgi on line 571

At a wild guess, I'd say that the problem is that the server tries to interpret
the PHP executable rather than execute it as a native binary. Any ideas how I
can stop that?

URL Posting
I just need some direction as to a function that can help with this particular situation:
I would like to create a script that acts like a browser and simply goes to a specific web (ie: http://www.whatever.com) address on a regular schedule (ie: 100 times a day).
Any functions that emulate a web browser?

Posting With &
Our database stores the & symbol as & I have a select menu that
queries the database based on the selection. A sample selection:

<option value="Cats & Dogs">Cats & Dogs</option>

After I click on Submit, the value gets posted as "Cats & Dogs." How
can I keep it just "Cats & Dogs"

IP Posting
Is there a convenient variable for the server's IP? I was thinking of trying to have my wget crontab also post up a page that displays the server's (dynamic) IP, so I could access the box from school.

Posting Raw XML To PHP?
I want to post a XML file to a PHP program. I have seen programs using
the following curl format to send the XML:

curl =H"POST / HTTP/1.0 Content-Type:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 12 " -d"<top></top>"

However, I am not sure what to code on the PHP end to accept the XML.
I checked $_POST and it is empty. I know you can send the data by
posting to a var, like ( -d"xml="<top></top>"").

Posting To Another URL
I can cut and paste the following into my browser URL address and have
the script execute no problem:

http://subdomain.domain.com/log?amo...;orderid=123456

the domain is another site. How can I run a php script on my server
that will essentially post the above, but within my php script?

VB Posting?
I am trying to make something to post a response to the user's new thread automatically. Code:

Posting
I am trying to have a form submit to another source depending on a certain variable. Only problem is that the variable is not defined untill after you submit the form. Basically if a certain text field in the form is left blank i want it to be posting to a different place.

Posting To DB
When I post comments in a text area, an entry of "<img src="abc.jpg">" appears in the DB as "<img src="">" and when the DB results are displayed, it shows this "<img src="abc.jpg">" instead of the image. I'd like to display the image, what do I need to do?

Posting XML Using HTTPS
I need to post an xml string to another server using HTTPS (secure Socket Layer) protocol. On another server i need to get this data and extract it from binary to a string again. does anybody knows where i can find some information (articles) on this topic?

Posting With Fsockopen ?
I am trying post article using fsockopen. Even though i can connect to the server, i am keep getting this error message when ever i try to post something.

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in
/user/php/send.php on line 19

Blog Posting With PHP
If anyone here can point me in the right direction regarding the following, that would be a huge help...

I'm looking to automate posting to a Blogspot blog via PHP.

I've taken a look at their documentation and they have the blogger.newPost command as part of their API. I believe that by using this I can submit posts using XML.

However, I'm confused about how to specifically use this - particularly how to automate this with PHP.

Basically, I'm looking to create my own script that posts my pre-written content to a Blogspot blog from time to time.

Posting Data
I've got form with few submit buttons and one select field.
I need to post data to another file or to the same document.
Is it possible?

Posting Variables
I have created a MySQL database for storing info on a line of products. In this database is a number of fields that store text about the product's features - like bullet points, etc.

I would like to display a logo (image) in line with the text string.Currently I defined a variable: $logo = "<img src=thelogo.gif>" Then I go to my form that writes to the database and enter text into a field: this is some really interesting text about this product called <?=$logo?>

The database reads the php part of the string as a text string and ignores the php code. But, when the program retrieves this info from the database it is displayed in the browser as hidden. Meaning you can't see it unless you view source code. Can any of you gurus tell me how I can easily have the PHP code extract a variable ($logo) from a text string in a database?

POSTing To My Own Scripts
I've got some scripts that back-end multiple HTML forms, accepting data via
POST. What I'd like to do is have some automated processing take place via
cron, using those same scripts to do the back-end processing. I'm looking for
a way to invoke those scripts from a script *not* executed via a browser
session.

I've found one way via streams (http://www.php.net/stream), by creating a
pretend browser session.

1. Is there an easy-to-use class that encapsulates this? That is, something
that I pass an array of field names and values along with the target URL?

2. Is there a better way?

Modifying And Posting Uri
How can I take a uri passed to a interface script(a script that is called
for every page request) modify it, do whatever, and then change the uri that
the user see's to be whatever?

Essentially I have a rewrite rule

RewriteRule ^(.*)[/]?$ /Index.php

That calls index.php

I can do $_Server['REQUEST_URI'] to get the uri but how can I modify the
browser's uri that the user see's but also redirect the uri to something
different.

Basically I sorta want to write a rewrite handler of my own because I'm
having a few issues with it. I'd rather use php to deal with it if possible.

POSTing Through Frames
I have what is perhaps a stupid problem. I have a form where users enter
values (call this page1.php), and these then need to be POSTed to a page
(page2.php) (code at bottom of this posting), that calls up a page with two
frames (page3a.php and page3b.php) BUT, I need the values that the user
entered in page1.php to be visible to page3a.php and page3b.php.

When I submit from page1.php (running apache btw) I get "Method Not
Allowed -- The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /page2.php."

Can anyone please tell me how to get this values posted from page1.php. to
the targets where I need those values in page3a.php and page3b.php? Thanks,
Ike

This is page2.php:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>VIOS Demonstration</TITLE>

</HEAD>
<frameset rows="360,*">
<frame src="page3a.php" name="top" scrolling="no"
noresize FRAMEBORDER="0" BORDER="0" FRAMESPACING="0" marginwidth="1"
marginheight="1">
<frame src="page3b.php" name="bottom" marginwidth="1"
scrolling="no" noresize FRAMEBORDER="0" BORDER="0" FRAMESPACING="0"
marginheight="1">

<noframes>
<body>
<p>
<p>This web page uses frames, but your
browser doesn't support them.</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</HTML>

Posting Forms
I am kind of new to PHP so this might be a stupid question, but here it
is anyway. If there is a form, let's say somewhere on the web with a
couple of input fields and a submit button. Can I pull that .html (or
whatever extension it is) in a PHP object and then post it with the
input fields filled with what I want? And then show the result to the
user? How would that be done?

Posting Message
im making a forum system and i was wondering if i could have a post delay (flood control). e.g. say if user1 posted a message and then wanted to post again straight after, and then got a custom flood control message.

can i ask how would i make it so i could select how long you had to wait before posting another message and how would i make it so i can select a custom flood control message. i would like the flood control custom message and time limit (in seconds) to be stored in a mysql table.

Posting To A Database.
I'm currently developing a website that includes an online registration form using PHP. I'm having trouble getting the script to post the value of a check box to the database. I have succesfully managed to post the values of the text boxes to the database but can't figure out how to post the value of the check boxes.