post command example?

[Martin Baxter]

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

HTH

Martin Baxter