Send parameters to a URL and get output from that page - php

Question

I have 2 pages say abc.php and def.php. When abc.php sends 2 values [id and name] to def.php, it shows a message "Value received". Now how can I send those 2 values to def.php without using form in abc.php and get the "Value received" message from def.php? I can't use form because when user frequently visits the abc.php file, the script should automatically work and get the message "Value received" from def.php. Please see my example code:
abc.php:
<?php
$id="123";
$name="blahblah";
//need to send the value to def.php & get value from that page
// echo $value=Print the "Value received" msg from def.php;
?>
def.php:
<?php
$id=$_GET['id'];
$name=$_GET['name'];
if(!is_null($id)&&!is_null($name))
{ echo "Value received";}
else{echo "Not ok";}
?>
Is there any kind heart who can help me solve the issue?

Answer 1

First make up your mind : do you want GET or POST parameters.
Your script currently expects them to be GET parameters, so you can simply call it (provided that URL wrappers are enabled anyway) using :
$f = file_get_contents('http://your.domain/def.php?id=123&name=blahblah');
To use the curl examples posted here in other answers you'll have to alter your script to use $_POST instead of $_GET.

Answer 2

You can try without cURL (I havent tried though):
Copy pasted from : POSTing data without cURL extension
// Your POST data
$data = http_build_query(array(
'param1' => 'data1',
'param2' => 'data2'
));
// Create HTTP stream context
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $data
)
));
// Make POST request
$response = file_get_contents('http://example.com', false, $context);

Answer 3

Taken from the examples page of php.net:
// create curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set url
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "example.com/abc.php");
//return the transfer as a string
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// $output contains the output string
$output = curl_exec($ch);
// close curl resource to free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
Edit: To send parameters
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
curl_setopt( tch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array('var1=foo', 'var2=bar'));

Answer 4

use CURL or Zend_Http_Client.

Answer 5

<?php
$method = 'GET'; //change to 'POST' for post method
$url = 'http://localhost/browse/';
$data = array(
'manufacturer' => 'kraft',
'packaging_type' => 'bag'
);
if ($method == 'POST'){
//Make POST request
$data = http_build_query($data);
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
'method' => "$method",
'header' => 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
'content' => $data)
)
);
$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
}
else {
// Make GET request
$data = http_build_query($data, '', '&');
$response = file_get_contents($url."?".$data, false);
}
echo $response;
?>
get inspired by trix's answer, I decided to extend that code to cater for both GET and POST method.