post command example?

[Devin Asay]

(Getting back to this after a week of vacation.)

On Jun 29, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Martin Baxter wrote:

> Devin Asay wrote:
>
>> I need to send some data to a php page on a web server, just a  
>> short  string like "abc2". I've read all I can find on the post  
>> command in  the documentation, but can't figure out how to format  
>> the data so the  php script will read it.
>> My stack:
>> contents of fld "uid": "abc2"
>> (I also tried [ name="netid" value="dna3" ] as the value of the   
>> field. Sans the [].)
>> the post button script:
>> on mouseUp
>>   post urlencode(fld "uid") to url fld "urlText" -- also tried   
>> without urlencode
>>   set the htmltext of fld "returnedText" to it
>> end mouseUp
>> The result returned makes it obvious that the php script  
>> executed,  but never received the value "abc2".
>> FWIW, the php script (one I wrote, that works when I hard code   
>> everything) uses the $POST_[value name here] format to grab the  
>> data.  I am a neophyte in php land, but have used this method  
>> successfully  in the past to pass values from html forms.
>> There are no clear examples of how to do this in the docs, and  
>> the  list archive at http://lists.runrev.com seems to be offline  
>> at the  moment.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>> Devin
>>
>
> Hi Devin,
>
> Maybe the problem is that you need to use ampersand to delimit the  
> name value pairs rather than space.
>
> Here is how I format the data
>
> put "any old text." into msgtext
> put urlencode(msgtext) into msgtext
> put "username" into tuser
> put "username=" & tuser & "&message=" & msgtext into data
> ## note no spaces and the use of ampersand to delimit the
> ## name value pairs
> ## tuser is known not to require urlencoding
> put "http://domain/path/document.php" into phpurl
> post data to url phpurl

Thanks Martin. That did the trick!

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University