HTTP POST and RESPONSE Action from Admin Dashboard

Question

I am looking to build a module that needs to do POST actions then handle the response details.

I understand how to do this from the frontend but am unsure how to fully implement this within the dashboard. Are there any simple examples of this you could provide or recommend an extension that performs similar actions I could look at?

Answer 1

Example using CURL:

$url = 'https://example.org/connector.php';
$postData = array();
$postData['var2'] = join(',', $emails);
$postData['var3'] = 'amasty';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

if (strlen($result) > 2){
   //do something 
}

edit

You can use this code in admin controller created by this tutorial http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/5_-_modules_and_development/0_-_module_development_in_magento/custom_module_with_custom_database_table