从Cron自动提交由PHP脚本生成的URL

Question

I wrote a small script, grabbing data from xml file. I need some of this xml data to generate a URL. I'm looking for a function, how to 'submit' (auto send) this generated URL. I don't use a form, the script is executed by a cron job and works 'hands-free'.

Here are some parts of my script. Thank you for your help!

<?php
$xml=simplexml_load_file("xml.xml");

// MAKE SOME VARIABLES FROM XML
$GUST = $xml->gust;

// I CAN GENERATE A WORKING LINK...
echo "<a href='http://anywhere&gust=".$GUST."&TR=T'>WORKING LINK</a>";

   // BUT I I TRY TO SEND THIS GENERATED URL FROM A CRON-JOB.
   //... no idea...?

Answer 1

You can use CURL to post on url.

An example is here:

Passing $_POST values with cURL

$dataToPost = array('name' => 'Ross');
$handle = curl_init($urlToPostAt);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_exec($handle);

Please note curl should be enabled in your php.ini