Using info passed from HTTP response as a php variable

[icb01co2]

Hi all,

I am using a maping company to display interactive maps on my site. They offer routing and proximity searches and the way they work is that you pass information to a url and it returns a location_id or a routing_id which you then include in a applet.

The problem is i'm a newbie, i dont know how to use the HTTP response as a variable. i.e.

if i open a browser and pass the url : -

themapcompany?street=$street&city=$city ...etc

then a location_id is returned to the screen. But i need to get that information as a variable, how?

Oh yeah and i have 3hrs to do this so i'm panicing.

Thanks, Chris.

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If you have 3 hours yer better off hiring them.

any variable contained in the URL is stored in the $_GET array.

?menu=main&size=medium&foo=bar

$_GET['menu'] equals main
$_GET['size'] equals medium
$_GET['foo'] equals bar

[icb01co2]

erm, i dont want to get the vars passed through the url?

I dont think i explained myself properly -

- there is a script lets say its called map.php that is stored on the mapping companys server and i dont have access to.

- the script will print to screen different routing_ids dependent on the vars passed to it.

- i need to somehow in a script get that routing_id i.e. i need a method that allows me to get the HTTP response and use it as a variable. i think fsconnect() is something like what i need but i dont know and time is an issue.

Thanks, Chris.

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Check out CURL
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php