php - Using curl to submit/retrieve a forms results

Question

I need help in trying to use curl to post data to a page and retrieve the results after the form has been submitted.

I created a simple form:

<form name="test" method="post" action="form.php">              
    <input type="text" name="name" size="40" />
    <input type="text" name="comment" size="40" />
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

In addition, I have php code to handle this form in the same page. All it does is echo back the form values.

The curl that I have been using is this:

  $h = curl_init();

  curl_setopt($h, CURLOPT_URL, "path/to/form.php"); 
  curl_setopt($h, CURLOPT_POST, true);
  curl_setopt($h, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array(
  'name' => 'yes',
  'comment' => 'no'
  ));
  curl_setopt($h, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
  curl_setopt($h, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

  $result = curl_exec($h);
  echo $result;

When I launch the page with the curl code in it, I get the form.php page contents but it doesn't not show the variables that PHP should have echo'd when the form is submitted.

would appreciate any help with this.

Thanks.

Answer 1

AHHHH after your comment, the problem is clear.

you need to include one more POST variable in your array.

'submitted' => 'submitted'

the submit button also returns a post value if clicked, which you are checking in your form processing PHP.

if ($_POST['submitted']) {

in your curl code however you have left out the 'submitted' post variable.

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