On Mon, 27 May 2002, Pras wrote:

[ I'm mainly replying here since no one else did ]

> I have 2 scripts. One sends a variable via a post operation through curl to
> another script. The second script contains an if structure to evaluate the
> content of the variable, and it should return a string based on that. here
> are the 2 scripts:

>
> ***********************************************
> page2.php - the one that uses curl
> ------------------------------------
> <?php
> $ch = curl_init ("page3.php");
>
> curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
> curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
> curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "test=inprogress");
> $result = curl_exec ($ch);
> curl_close ($ch);
>
> echo $result;
> ?>

page3.php - the script that processes the data
----------------------------------------------
<?php
if ($_POST['test'] == 'inprogress')
{
  return 'test is in progress';
}
else
{
  return 'not working';
}
?>

> In page2.php, nothing is output when the echo $result; line is encountered.
> I also tried echoing instead of returning a string in page3.php.
> Additionally, I tried writing output to a file in page3.php but none of
> these methods worked. Nothing is written to the file.

The page2 will get the response back from page3. I don't know PHP, but I
don't think 'return' is the proper way to output stuff/a response as HTML (or
whatever you wanna output).

The page2 curl_init() call does not use a proper URL. Doesn't this cause an
error or something?

> Apparently, the page3.php script isn't even being executed.

Very likely.

> Is this what is supposed to happen?

Yes, you must point to it with a proper URL and then it'll have better
chances of working.

> How can I obtain a result of the post operation?

RETURNTRANSFER is the way, AFAIK.

I am not a PHP hacker.

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
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