Example 11-1. pc_post_request( )

function pc_post_request($host,$url,$content='') {
    $timeout = 2;
    $a = array();
    if (is_array($content)) {
        foreach ($content as $k => $v) {
            array_push($a,urlencode($k).'='.urlencode($v));
        }
    }
    $content_string = join('&',$a);
    $content_length = strlen($content_string);
    $request_body = "POST $url HTTP/1.0
Host: $host
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-length: $content_length

$content_string";

    $sh = fsockopen($host,80,&$errno,&$errstr,$timeout)
        or die("can't open socket to $host: $errno $errstr");

    fputs($sh,$request_body);
    $response = '';
    while (! feof($sh)) {
        $response .= fread($sh,16384);
    }
    fclose($sh) or die("Can't close socket handle: $php_errormsg");

    list($response_headers,$response_body) = explode("\r\n\r\n",$response,2);
    $response_header_lines = explode("\r\n",$response_headers);
        
    // first line of headers is the HTTP response code
    $http_response_line = array_shift($response_header_lines);
    if (preg_match('@^HTTP/[0-9]\.[0-9] ([0-9]{3})@',$http_response_line,
                   $matches)) {
        $response_code = $matches[1];
    }

    // put the rest of the headers in an array 
    $response_header_array = array();
    foreach ($response_header_lines as $header_line) {
        list($header,$value) = explode(': ',$header_line,2);
        $response_header_array[$header] = $value;
    }
    
    return array($response_code,$response_header_array,$response_body);
}