PHP help needed. Any experts?

[3Xguru]

I'm working on a script that fills out forms automaticaly.
The form url's are stored in a database, and I need to submit the variables to the forms using the post method.
The problem is that I do not know how to automaticaly submit the forms in php(without pressing a button for each form)

The code would look something like this:

PHP Code:

<?php

for($i=1;$i<10;$i++){
$url_form="http://www.anotherserver.com/form".$i.".php";
$name="John";
}
?>

How do I submit the variable $name to all 10 external forms in the loop using the POST method?

[Libertine]

Open a socket connection, send the proper HTTP request, close the socket.

[3Xguru]

How do I do it? With the socket...
Can you post an simple example.
I have been trying to find a solution on Google for hours and my head hurts

[Libertine]

http://php.net/manual/nl/function.fsockopen.php
Read this.

[Libertine]

And here's an example from that page which might be helpful (no, I am lazy today, so I won't write you some custom code):

PHP Code:

//create a string with all the posted data...

foreach ($HTTP_POST_VARS as $key => $value) {
$value = urlencode(stripslashes($value));
 $req .= "&$key=$value";
}

//create headers...

$header .= "POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .= 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n";
$fp = fsockopen ('www.paypal.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);

if (!$fp) {
 // ERROR
 echo "$errstr ($errno)";
} else {

//put the data..
 fputs ($fp, $header . $req);
 while (!feof($fp)) {
//read the data returned...
   $res = fgets ($fp, 1024);

}
 fclose ($fp);
} 


[3Xguru]

Thanks punkworld

You really helped me a lot!