PHP – Redirect and send data via POST

I have an online gateway which requires an HTML form to be submitted with hidden fields. I need to do this via a PHP script without any HTML forms (I have the data for the hidden fields in a DB)

To do this sending data via GET:

header('Location: http://www.provider.com/process.jsp?id=12345&name=John');

And to do this sending data via POST?

Answer

You can’t do this using PHP.

As others have said, you could use cURL – but then the PHP code becomes the client rather than the browser.

If you must use POST, then the only way to do it would be to generate the populated form using PHP and use the window.onload hook to call javascript to submit the form.

C.