file_post_contents php function
This php function is useful when you want to send arguments by POST method instead of GET. very handy 😉
The usage is same as file_get_contents
function file_post_contents($url,$headers=false) {
$url = parse_url($url);
if (!isset($url['port'])) {
if ($url['scheme'] == 'http') { $url['port']=80; }
elseif ($url['scheme'] == 'https') { $url['port']=443; }
}
$url['query']=isset($url['query'])?$url['query']:'';
$url['protocol']=$url['scheme'].'://';
$eol="\r\n";
$headers2 = "POST ".$url['protocol'].$url['host'].$url['path']." HTTP/1.0".$eol.
"Host: ".$url['host'].$eol.
"Referer: ".$url['protocol'].$url['host'].$url['path'].$eol.
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded".$eol.
"Content-Length: ".strlen($url['query']).$eol.
$eol.$url['query'];
$fp = fsockopen($url['host'], $url['port'], $errno, $errstr, 30);
if($fp) {
fputs($fp, $headers2);
$result = '';
while(!feof($fp)) { $result .= fgets($fp, 128); }
fclose($fp);
if (!$headers) {
//removes headers
$pattern="/^.*\r\n\r\n/s";
$result=preg_replace($pattern,'',$result);
}
return $result;
}
}
