PHP - Posting Data Using Curl

I'm not much of a PHP programmer so please excuse the mess but I'm having a problem with some code. I am able to successfully build a table and assign values to radio buttons based one information in a database. The problem comes when I want to update the database when someone changes a radio button. Everthing works up until the foreach statment. Nothing in the database is being updated, if I replace the sql statement with echo $v; all I get is the word Submit so it's like the rest of the values aren't being included in the form.
<link href="css/demo.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<?php
session_start();
// dBase file
        include "dbconfig.php";
if (!$_SESSION["valid_user"])
        {
        // User not logged in, redirect to login page
        Header("Location: index.php");
        }
 //Grab GUID passed in the URL
 $guid=$_GET['guid'];
 // Create query for student name
  $sql = "SELECT FirstName, LastName FROM Students where GUID ='". $guid . "'";
  // Run query
  $result = mssql_query($sql);
  $row= mssql_fetch_assoc($result);
  
// Member only content
//Title and main page information
echo "<div align=\"center\"><p><img src=\"images/EFCTS Logo.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"144\" /></p><h1>OCAP DATABASE</h1></div>";
echo "<p><a href=\"logout.php\">Logout</a></p>";
//Build sortable table of student data.
echo "<table id=\"test1\" class=\"sortable-onload-3-reverse rowstyle-alt no-arrow\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">";

//query database for table information
$SQLcommand = "SELECT convert(varchar(36), StudentGUID) as StudentGUID, CompetencyLevel, CompetencyName, CompetencyID, Category, convert(varchar(36), CompetencyGUID) as CompetencyGUID FROM VW_StudentSkills WHERE StudentGUID ='". $guid ."'";
$SQLresult = MsSQL_QUERY($SQLcommand);

//Continue building table
echo "<caption>".$row[FirstName]." ".$row[LastName]."</caption>";
echo "<th style=\"-moz-user-select: none;\" class=\"sortable-numeric fd-column-0\"><a title=\"Sort on \"Competency ID\"\" href=\"#\">Competency ID</a></th>";
echo "<th style=\"-moz-user-select: none;\" class=\"fd-column-1 sortable-text reverseSort\"><a title=\"Sort on \"Catagory\"\" href=\"#\">Catagory</a></th>";
echo "<th style=\"-moz-user-select: none;\" class=\"fd-column-2 sortable-text reverseSort\"><a title=\"Sort on \"Competency Name\"\" href=\"#\">Competency Name</a></th>";
echo "<th style=\"-moz-user-select: none;\" class=\"sortable-numeric fd-column-3\"><a title=\"Sort on \"Competency Level\"\" href=\"#\">Competency Level</a></th>";
echo "</tr></thead>";
//Set variables for radio buttons
$a="";
$b="";
$c="";
$d="";

//count the number of rows returned
$count=mysql_num_rows($SQLresult);
//Start form
echo "<form name=\"form1\" method=\"post\" action=\"".$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']."\">";

$groupnum = 0;
//Build table with SQL data
while($row2=mssql_fetch_array($SQLresult)) 
{

//find the competency level
$complevel = $row2[CompetencyLevel];
if($complevel=="1") $a="checked";
if($complevel=="2") $b="checked";
if($complevel=="3") $c="checked";
if($complevel=="4") $d="checked";
//build the table
echo "<tr class=\"\"><td>".$row2[CompetencyID]."</td><td>".$row2[Category]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$row2[CompetencyName]."</td>";
echo "<td class=\"lft\"><input type=\"radio\" name=\"".$row2[CompetencyID]."\" value=\"1\"".$a."> 1";
echo "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"".$row2[CompetencyID]."\" value=\"2\"".$b."> 2";
echo "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"".$row2[CompetencyID]."\" value=\"3\"".$c."> 3";
echo "<input type=\"radio\" name=\"".$row2[CompetencyID]."\" value=\"4\"".$d."> 4";
$idarray[]=$row2[CompetencyGUID];
echo "</td></tr>";
$groupnum++;
//clear the variables
$a="";
$b="";
$c="";
$d="";
}

echo "</tbody>";
echo "<input type=\"submit\" name=\"Submit\" value=\"Submit\">";
echo "</form></table>";
echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"javascript/tablesort.js\"></script>";

                  if($_POST['Submit'])
                        {
                           echo"submit button detected";
   foreach($_POST as $k=>$v)
                           {                               
                             if($k!="Submit") { 
                              $sqlUpdate = "UPDATE DATA SET COMPETENCYLEVEL = '".$v."' WHERE COMPETENCYGUID = '".$idarray."' AND STUDENGUID = '".$guid."' ";
                              $resultUpdate = mssql_query($sqlUpdate);
  }

                           }
                        }
if($resultUpdate)
                        {    print_r ($_POST); 
echo $resultUpdate;     
echo $sqlUpdate;                  
                                                      
                        }
                        else
                        {
                           echo "Your entry is not completed at this time.............";
   echo $sqlUpdate;
   echo $resultUpdate;
                        }
                    
// Display Member information
//echo "<p>User ID: " . $_SESSION["valid_id"];
//echo "<p>Username: " . $_SESSION["valid_user"];
//echo "<p>Logged in: " . date("m/d/Y", $_SESSION["valid_time"]);

?>

I'm trying to figure out a way to post data directly to a URL. For example:



<?php 
if (isset($_POST["pass"]) && ($_POST["pass"]=="$password")) {

echo "You did it";

?>

<?php 
}
else
{
  echo "<form method=\"post\"><p align=\"left\">";
  echo "<input name=\"pass\" type=\"text\" size=\"25\" maxlength=\"40\"><input value=\"Enter Pass\" type=\"submit\"></form>";
 exit;
} 
?>


Let's assume $password is 'password'. Why can't I simply pass the information through the URL to access the page with something like this:

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http://mypage.com/the-same-page.php?pass=password

Hi,   I have a database which holds results     Name | Car | etc \ etc | Round 1  |  round 2   | round 3 // etc  | Total   the points are in the format of; e.g. 100.5  // 25.6  // 35.8  // 50.0   I input the data manually using a webpage, clicking on the relevant driver, update scores, click submit.  I have to manually work out the total, is there a way I can it it automatically add the values from round 1,2,3, etc.

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I ve been having trouble processing form data to the same page as the do on facebook comments. Can php scripts do that.
Help me guys!!

Hello.  I currently have a web page that allows a user to enter text into a form then select a "Submit Query" button; upon doing this the entered text is saved to a database and displayed for the user on the same page (the page where the form and "Submit Query" button are located).

My question is as follows: I wish the results to be displayed on a new page when the "Submit Query" button is clicked, not displayed on the same page.  Is this achieved through targeting? I am a bit lost at this point on how to achieve this result.

Thank-you in advance for any help.
~Matty

Hi everyone,

First off thank you very kindly to anyone who can provide some enlightenment to this total php/mysql newb.  I am creating my first database and while I have been able to connect to the database within my php script (or so I believe), the form data does not appear to be actually getting sent. 

I have development experience in other languages but this is completely new to me so if I've missed something that appears painfully obvious like a parse error of some sort, I do apologize.  I am creating a website using Godaddy as the hosting account, and attempting to connect to the mysql database at the following URL (maybe this is where I'm going wrong):

"pnmailinglist.db.4662743.hostedresource.com"

Below is my very simple code:

<?php

//Verify successful connection to database.

$connect = mysql_connect("pnmailinglist.db.4662743.hostedresource.com", "*********", "*********");

if(!$connect)
{die("Could not connect!");
}

//Initialize variables with form data.

$firstname = $_POST['FirstName'];
$lastname = $_POST['LastName'];
$email = $_POST['Email'];
$howfound = $_POST['HowFound'];

//Post data to database, or return error.

mysql_select_db("pnmailinglist", $connect);

mysql_query("INSERT INTO mailinglist (First, Last, Email, How_Found) VALUES ($firstname,$lastname,$email,$howfound)");

mysql_close($connect);

echo "Thank you for joining our mailing list!  We will contact you soon with the dates and times of our upcoming events.";

?>



Thank you again very much for any pointers or hints as to where I'm screwing up.  I get no runtime errors, no syntax errors, and the echo message does display fine at the end -- just no data when I go to check my database! 


Best Regards,

CL

I am trying to go to http://lirr42.mta.info/
and get the data from the submitted form. I have rebuilt the form exactly as needed, and done a few adjustments.  The posts that I am sending from MY form, are the same as the one on the site.  This site allows public data mining by the way.  So does someone seem something wrong with my code?

I know the basics are working. I have another page that is working fine. It's just this one ends up returning something..it returns part of the data but it's something wrong with it.

Any advice is appreciated.
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<?php
define( 'DEBUG', true );

define( 'DEFAULT_STOP', 'Broadway' );

// report all errors during development/debug mode
if ( DEBUG ) 
error_reporting( E_ALL );
else
error_reporting( 0 );

include( 'simplehtmldom/simple_html_dom.php' );

$mta_post_url = 'http://lirr42.mta.info/schedules.php';

// GTFS Specification File Definitions
$gtfs_files = array
(
'agency'          =>  'agency.txt',                  // required
'stops'           =>  'stops.txt',                   // required
'routes'          =>  'routes.txt',                  // required
'trips'           =>  'trips.txt',                   // required
'stop_times'      =>  'stop_times.txt',              // required
'calendar'        =>  'calendar.txt',                // required
'calendar_dates'  =>  'calendar_dates.txt',
'fare_rules'      =>  'fare_rules.txt',
'fare_attributes' =>  'fare_attributes.txt',
'shapes'          =>  'shapes.txt',
'frequencies'     =>  'frequencies.txt',
'transfers'       =>  'transfers.txt'
);

$gtfs_pickup_codes = array
(
    0 => 'Regularly scheduled pickup',
    1 => 'No pickup available',
    2 => 'Must phone agency to arrange pickup',
    3 => 'Must coordinate with driver to arrange pickup'
);

$gtfs_dropoff_codes = array
(
0 => 'Regularly scheduled drop off', 
    1 => 'No drop off available',
    2 => 'Must phone agency to arrange drop off',
    3 => 'Must coordinate with driver to arrange drop off'
);

// load stops file 
$stopsFile = fopen( 'data/lir/' . $gtfs_files[ 'stops' ], "r" );

if ( $stopsFile )
{
// get (and toss) header row
$stopsHeader = fgetcsv( $stopsFile, 1000 );

// print_r( $stopsHeader );

// will hold HTML output for Select dropdown for stops
$stopSelectOptions = '';

// build array from file data
while ( $data = fgetcsv( $stopsFile, 1000 ) )
{
$stopsData[ $data[1] ] = $data[0]; 
}

// get a sorted array of the stop names ( yes this could be done with array_multisort or usort but I didnj't feel like it right now )
$stopNames = array_keys( $stopsData );
sort( $stopNames );

// loop through sorted array and create SELECT options with default SELECTED at Grand Central Terminal
foreach( $stopNames as $stop )
$stopSelectOptions .= sprintf( '<option %s value="%d">%s</option>', ( DEFAULT_STOP == $stop ) ?  'selected="selected"' : '' , $stopsData[ $stop ], $stop ) . "\n\r";
}
fclose( $stopsFile );


// load ads file 
$adsFile = fopen( 'ads.txt', "r" );

if ( $adsFile )
{
// get (and toss) header row
$adsHeader = fgetcsv( $adsFile, 1000 );

// will hold ads available for stops
$ads = array();

// build array from file data
while ( $data = fgetcsv( $adsFile, 1000 ) )
{
$ads[ $data[0] ] = array
(
'filename' => $data[1],
'url'      => $data[2],
'text'     => $data[3]
);
}
fclose( $adsFile );
}


// printout the html header
require_once( 'header.php' );


if ( 'POST' == $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_METHOD' ] ) 
{
$from_stop = $_POST[ 'FromStation' ];  // @todo Filter! http://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.validate.php
$orig_station = $from_stop;

$to_stop = $_POST[ 'ToStation' ];  // @todo Filter! http://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.validate.php
$dest_station = $to_stop;

if (  $to_stop == $from_stop ) 
{
$error = 'Originating and Destination stops are the same.';
}
else
{

print_ad( $orig_station, $dest_station, $location='top' );

$travel_date = $_POST[ 'RequestDate' ];
$requestTime = $_POST[ 'RequestTime' ];
$am_pm       = $_POST[ 'RequestAMPM' ];
$filter      = $_POST[ 'sortBy' ];

/*
* Lets post this to MTA.info
*/

$mta_curl = curl_init();

$mta_curl_options = array
(
CURLOPT_FAILONERROR    => true,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false,
// CURLOPT_MUTE           => true,
CURLOPT_POST           => true,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 30,
CURLOPT_URL            => $mta_post_url,
CURLOPT_REFERER        => 'http://lirr42.mta.info/',
CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => 'MTA Info Scrape/1.0',
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS     => http_build_query( $_POST )
);
curl_setopt_array( $mta_curl, $mta_curl_options );
$mta_response = curl_exec( $mta_curl );

if ( false === $mta_response )
{
curl_close( $mta_curl );
die( sprintf( 'Response Code:%s, Curl Error No:%s, Curl Error Message:%s', curl_getinfo( $mta_curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE ),curl_errno( $mta_curl ), curl_error( $mta_curl ) ) );
}
else
{
curl_close( $mta_curl );
echo '<pre>' . htmlentities( $mta_response ) . '</pre>';

$html = new simple_html_dom();
$html->load( $mta_response );
$schedule_table = $html->find( 'table', 0 );  // find second table in the response
$row_count = 0;

// will hold HTML output for table
$stopSchedule = '<table><th>Departs</th><th>Arrives</th><th>Minutes</th><th>Transfer</th><th>Fare</th></tr>';

foreach ( $schedule_table->find('tr') as $schedule_row ) 
{
$row_count++;
// check for and skip header row
if ( 1 == $row_count )
continue;

// check for and skip last row which first TD has rowspan attribute
if ( $schedule_row->children(0)->colspan )
{
continue;
}
// extract table data for this row
$depart_time      = $schedule_row->children( 0 )->innertext;
$arrive_time      = $schedule_row->children( 2 )->innertext;
$minutes_traveled = $schedule_row->children( 4 )->innertext;
$transfer         = $schedule_row->children( 5 )->innertext;
$fare             = $schedule_row->children( 6 )->plaintext; 
// add table row to html output
$stopSchedule .= sprintf( '<tr><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td><td>%s</td></tr>', $depart_time, $arrive_time, $minutes_traveled, $transfer, $fare ) . "\n\r";
}  // end foreach schedule_row

// add table end tag to html output
$stopSchedule .= '</table>';

// output table to browser
echo $stopSchedule;

print_ad( $orig_station, $dest_station, $location='bottom' );

} // end if mta response

} // end if not same orig and dest 

} // end if POST


if ( 'GET' == $_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_METHOD' ] || ! empty( $error ) ) 
{

print_ad( null, null, $location = 'default' );

?>

<form method="post">

<?php

if ( ! empty ( $error ) )
{
echo sprintf( '<div class="error">%s</div>', $error );
}

?>

From:<br />
<select id="orig_station" name="FromStation" tabindex="2">
<?php echo $stopSelectOptions; ?>
</select>

<br />
<br />

To:<br />
<select id="dest_station" name="ToStation" tabindex="3">
<?php echo $stopSelectOptions; ?>
</select>

<br />
<br />

<input id="date1" name="RequestDate" size="12" maxlength="10" tabindex="4" value="<?php echo date( 'm/d/Y' ); ?>" />

<?php 
$currentHour = trim( date( 'h' ) );
$currentMinutes = trim( date( 'i' ) );
$currentMinutesFloor =  sprintf( '%02d' , $currentMinutes - ( $currentMinutes % 30 ) );
$currentAMPM = trim ( date( 'A' ) );

$start_time = strtotime( '1:00 AM' );
$end_time = strtotime( '1:00 PM' );
?>

<select name="RequestTime" tabindex="5">
<?php
while( $start_time < $end_time )
{
$option_time = date( 'h:i', $start_time );
$option_hour = trim( date( 'h', $start_time ) );

$option_minutes = trim( date( 'i', $start_time ) );
$option_selected = (  $option_hour == $currentHour && $option_minutes  == $currentMinutesFloor );

echo sprintf( '<option %s>%s</option>', ( $option_selected ) ? 'selected="selected"' : '',  $option_time ) . "\r\n";

$start_time = $start_time + 30*60;
}
?>
</select>

<select name="RequestAMPM" tabindex="6">

<option value="AM" <?php echo ( 'AM' == $currentAMPM ) ? 'selected="SELECTED"' : ''; ?>>AM</option>
<option value="PM" <?php echo ( 'PM' == $currentAMPM ) ? 'selected="SELECTED"' : ''; ?>>PM</option>
</select>

<input name="sortBy" type="hidden" value="1" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Check Schedule" />
</form>


<!--  images/base/
ic_menu_back.png
ic_menu_home.png

-->
<?php 

}

require_once( 'footer.php' );

?>

I'm using cURL to crawl and scrape data from a website. This website contains tables with rows of data. When I send a cURL POST for the underlying data at a specific row(A), it will return the expected data. But when I move to the second row(B), the data returns blank or specifically, a tons of spaces (or &#nbsp's.) When I access the cURL's POST location by browser, I can see (B)'s data. The only difference in the 2 POST's are location ID's for the data. I don't think it's a problem with JavaScript as I can successfully return data from row (A) as I mentioned.

I have json code  and i want to prine only {"currency":"DOGE","available":"0","reserved":"420.000000000"} data.

my json data

[{"currency":"1ST","available":"0","reserved":"0"},{"currency":"DOGE","available":"0","reserved":"420.000000000"},{"currency":"ZSC","available":"0","reserved":"0"}]    

I use this code

 <?php
  $ch = curl_init('http://arbitrage.adquash.com/balance.json'); 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('accept: application/json'));
 $return = curl_exec($ch); 
  curl_close($ch); 
$result=json_decode($return);
echo "<pre>";
foreach($result as $row){
  echo $row->$a['currency']['available']['reserved'];

?>

OK, I have the initial cURL working but need to figure out how to extract data I want off that webpage to display or store in a database, I tried using dom and xpath, but because of the way the page displays using css, i think its not picking it up. Here is my cURL script:
<?php
$userAgent = 'Googlebot/2.1 (http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)';

$target_url = "www.test.com";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$target_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
if (!$html) {
echo "<br />cURL error number:" .curl_errno($ch);
echo "<br />cURL error:" . curl_error($ch);
exit;
}
// parse the html into a DOMDocument
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);

// grab all the on the page
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$hrefs = $xpath->evaluate("/html/body//td");

for ($i = 0; $i < $hrefs->length; $i++) {
$href = $hrefs->item($i);
$url = $href->getAttribute('href');
storeLink($url,$target_url);
echo "<br />Link stored: $url";
}

?>
and here is a snippet of the source of the page I am getting:

<span id="lblTest"><h1 id='surrZipTitle'>Agents in Surrounding Zip Codes</h1><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' class='tblDent'><tr><td class='tdEliteTitle'><span class='caaSubHead3 addwidth'>H.K. Dent Elite</span></td></tr><tr><td class='tdEliteContent'><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0'><tr><td valign='top'><span class='caaAgencyName2 addwidth'>PROFESSIONAL INS ASSOC, INC.</span></td><td valign='top'>&nbsp;</td></tr></table><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0'><tr><td width='360px' valign='top'><div class='addressBlock'><span>4444 MANZANITA AVE STE 6</span><br /><span>CARMICHAEL                    , CA 95608-1488</span><br /><a class='faaBlueLink' id='lnkContact' href='http://www.safeco.com/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_20656_395_362_0_43/http%3B/por-portlets-prd.int.apps.safeco.com%3B13425/dotcom/FindAnAgent/find-an-agent/contactanagent.aspx?RequestType=agency&level=elite&Id=0415199904150295&lat=38.646142&lng=-121.327623' onclick='oOobj4.Preferences.Plugins.Events.poX=0;'>Contact &amp; Directions</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; <a class='faaBlueLink' id='lnkWebSite' style='display: none;' href='http://' target='_blank' onclick="return trackEvent('/External-Link/AgentWebsite/                                                                      ','PROFESSIONAL INS ASSOC, INC.                                ');">Website</a></div></td><td valign='top'>&nbsp;</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' class='tblDent'><tr><td class='tdEliteTitle'><span class='caaSubHead3 addwidth'>H.K. Dent Elite</span></td></tr><tr><td class='tdEliteContent'><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0'><tr><td valign='top'><span class='caaAgencyName2 addwidth'>AMERICAN AIM AUTO INS AGY, INC</span></td><td valign='top'>&nbsp;</td></tr></table><table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0'><tr><td width='360px' valign='top'><div class='addressBlock'><span>5339 SAN JUAN AVE</span><br /><span>FAIR OAKS                     , CA 95628-3318</span><br /><a class='faaBlueLink' id='lnkContact' href='http://www.safeco.com/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_20656_395_362_0_43/http%3B/por-portlets-prd.int.apps.safeco.com%3B13425/dotcom/FindAnAgent/find-an-agent/contactanagent.aspx?RequestType=agency&level=elite&Id=0415911704151222&lat=38.66237&lng=-121.292429' onclick='oOobj4.Preferences.Plugins.Events.poX=0;'>Contact &amp; Directions</a>

So basically I want to extract the agency name like "<span class='caaAgencyName2 addwidth'>PROFESSIONAL INS ASSOC, INC.</span>" and the address which always use the same div class like "caaAgencyName2" and "addressBlock".  How can this be accomplished?

First of all... this is a GREAT forum. Been lurking around here for a long time and searched all over but still can't find a solution to a problem I'm facing.

Here's my cURL code - I am basically retrieving data from a web site:
<?php

$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,'http://myprimemobile.com/update.html');
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);

if (empty($buffer))
{
    print "Connection Timeout<p>";
}
else
{
    print $buffer;
}
?>

If you take a look at the site http://myprimemobile.com/update.html -- it will begin to update new information. I want to basically retrieve the data from that page but in my own way.

I want to loop through the page and search for all the names, addresses, and phone numbers only (not store hours or anything else), and want to put it in a variable so I can create a table with all that information on my page.

Based on the code, all the information is stored in the $buffer variable. I want to break this variable down to extract certain data in a 'div' or a 'table'. Please help me out. Thanks!

ok i have been trying for over a week now, and i just relearning php again after a few years of being lazy. lol

here is a code snippet.
Quote

//prep the members
$myFile2 = "members.txt";
$fh2 = fopen($myFile2, 'r');
$theData2 = fread($fh2, filesize($myFile2));
fclose($fh2);
//echo $theData2;
//grab the stats!
$url = 'http://link';
$postdata = 'players='.$theData2.'&fields=all';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($data,true);


the orininal code
Quote

//prep the members
$members = "member,member1,member two,member blue";
//grab the stats!
$url = 'http://link';
$postdata = 'players='.$members.'&fields=all';
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$data = json_decode($data,true);


now the problium i am having is that with the original way, listing the members indevidualy is not the way i would like it, it would be easyer if it was in .txt form so i can add top it easyer. Also i have 300 people to add and the string doesnt seem to like that many people in it.....so i made a txt file, and it all works except that when i load the page it does not display the members stats from the external link. each players stats gets posted on the page and sorted who is ranked highest.

echo works for echoing the contents of the file. however thats usless to me as i want the contents of the file to work like the orininal code.

sorry if its confusing....

basicaly there is data from the link for each player asociated with there name. which is seperated by a , in the code. so each time a , is reached the code repeats its self posting each player till there are no more to post. the string is to short for me or just seems to not work with 300 people. i need it to read the external .txt file or something simular and work in the same mannor.

I've looked at various cURL tutorials and the PHP manual, but I don't see what I'm doing wrong here. My goal is to be able to send data to test.php and then have that page run a MySQL query to insert the TITLE and MESSAGE into the database. Any comments? :/

post.php

<?php
                if(isset($_GET['title']) && isset($_GET['message']) && isset($_GET['times']))
                {
                    $array = array('title' => urlencode($_GET['title']), 'message' => urlencode($_GET['message']));
                    
                    foreach($array as $key => $value) { $fields = $key.'='. $value .'&'; }
                    rtrims($felds);
                    
                    //set our init handle
                    $curl_init = curl_init();
                    
                    //set our URL
                    curl_setopt($curl_init, CURLOPT_URL, 'some url');
                    
                    //set the number of fields we're sending
                    curl_setopt($curl_init ,CURLOPT_POST, count($array));
                    
                    for($i = 0; $i < $_GET['times']; $i++)
                    {
                        //send the POST data
                        curl_setopt($curl_init, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields);
                        curl_exec($curl_init);
                        
                        echo 'post #'.$i. ' sent<br/>';
                    }
                    
                    //complete
                    echo '<b>COMPLETE</b>';

                    //close session
                    curl_close($curl_init);
                    
                }
                else
                {
                    ?>
        
                    <form action="post.php" method="GET">
                    <table>
                    <tr><td>Title</td><td><input type="text" name="title" maxlength="30"></td></tr>
                    <tr><td>Content</td><td><textarea name="message" rows="20" cols="45" maxlength="2000"></textarea></td></tr>
                    <tr><td>Process Amount</td><td><input type="text" name="times" size="5" maxlength="3"></td></tr>
                    <tr><td>START</td><td><input type="submit" value="Initiate Posting"></td></tr>
                    </table>
                    </form>
        
                    <?php
                }
            ?>


test.php

<?php

mysql_connect('host', 'user', 'pass');
mysql_select_db('somedb');

if($_POST['title'] && $_POST['message'])
{
    mysql_insert("INSERT INTO tests VALUES (null, '{$_POST['title']}', '{$_POST['message']}')");
}

echo '<hr><br/>';

//query
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tests ORDER BY id DESC");

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
{
    echo $row['id'].'TITLE: '. $row['title'] .'<br/>MESSAGE: '. $row['message'] .'<br/><br/>';
}
?>

I'm getting data from a remote XML file using the following as a result of a form:

Code: [Select]
<?php

header('Content-type: text/xml');

//extract data from the post
extract($_POST);

//set POST variables
$url = 'https://www.*******';
$fields = array(
            'ESERIES_FORM_ID'=>urlencode($ESERIES_FORM_ID),
            'MXIN_USERNAME'=>urlencode($MXIN_USERNAME),
            'MXIN_PASSWORD'=>urlencode($MXIN_PASSWORD),
            'MXIN_VRM'=>urlencode($MXIN_VRM),
            'MXIN_TRANSACTIONTYPE'=>urlencode($MXIN_TRANSACTIONTYPE),
            'MXIN_PAYMENTCOLLECTIONTYPE'=>urlencode($MXIN_PAYMENTCOLLECTIONTYPE),
            'MXIN_CAPCODE'=>urlencode($MXIN_CAPCODE)
        );

//url-ify the data for the POST
foreach($fields as $key=>$value) { $fields_string .= $key.'='.$value.'&'; }
rtrim($fields_string,'&');

//open connection
$ch = curl_init();

//set the url, number of POST vars, POST data
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,count($fields));
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$fields_string);

//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);

//close connection
curl_close($ch);


?>
Which is displaying what was the remote XML page, but has brought it to my domain.

How would I go about taking the results of the displaying XML page and displaying them on the next page rather than just displaying the XML data?

Many thanks in advanced!