PHP Post data with Fsockopen

Question

I am attempting to post data using fsockopen, and then returning the result. Here is my current code:

Answer 1

Curl is too heavy in some case, to use post_to_host():

//GET:
$str_rtn=post_to_host($str_url_target, array(), $arr_cookie, $str_url_referer, $ref_arr_head, 0);

//POST:
$arr_params=array('para1'=>'...', 'para2'=>'...');
$str_rtn=post_to_host($str_url_target, $arr_params, $arr_cookie, $str_url_referer, $ref_arr_head);

//POST with file:
$arr_params=array('para1'=>'...', 'FILE:para2'=>'/tmp/test.jpg', 'para3'=>'...');
$str_rtn=post_to_host($str_url_target, $arr_params, $arr_cookie, $str_url_referer, $ref_arr_head, 2);

//raw POST:
$tmp=array_search('uri', @array_flip(stream_get_meta_data($GLOBALS[mt_rand()]=tmpfile())));
$arr_params=array('para1'=>'...', 'para2'=>'...');
file_put_contents($tmp, json_encode($arr_params));
$arr_params=array($tmp);
$str_rtn=post_to_host($str_url_target, $arr_params, $arr_cookie, $str_url_referer, $ref_arr_head, 3);

//get cookie and merge cookies:
$arr_new_cookie=get_cookies_from_heads($ref_arr_head)+$arr_old_cookie;//don't change the order

//get redirect url:
$str_url_redirect=get_from_heads($ref_arr_head, 'Location');

post to host php project location: http://code.google.com/p/post-to-host/