Admins eHow SysAdmin Tips & Tricks

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;
    }
}