PHP - Trying to use cURL to send information to another page
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Basically I am trying to make a validation for a form and if everything goes right it should go to the 2nd page where it should take the information from the $_POST.  I was told that given the way I am doing it, _POST wouldnt work and i should try cURL. I tried to make it work but somehow it doesnt work... it redirects correctly to the "install2.php" but its not passing any variables to it. What i am doing wrong???


    <?php 
    //If the person pressed summit check for the information submited. If everything is correct move to the next page.
    if (isset($_POST['submit'])) 
    {
    	// declare Variables
       $username = $_POST['username'];
       $password = $_POST['password'];
       $server = $_POST['server'];
       $message = "The following fields are empty: ";
       
       //Step 1 : Check if username & server are empty and if they are return the correct error
    	if (empty($username) || empty($server) )
       { 
     
    	 if (empty($username)) {	
    	  $message .= "Username";
    	 		   				}
    	
    	 if (empty($password)) {
          $message .= " Password";
    		   					}
    
    	 if (empty($server)) {	
    	 $message .= " Server";
    		   					}			
    	}   else {
    		
    	//Step 2: Attempt to connect to the DB with the information provided. if not sucessful return to correct error to the user.
    	@$connection = mysql_connect($server,$username,$password);
    	if (!$connection) {
    	
    	$message = "Please check your details. the script was unable to connect to the db.";
    				 }
    				 
    				  else { 
    
    	//Step 3: Since the connection was stablished successfuly with the information provided then send the login details tot he next page
    	// NOTE: For porpuses of this script I am only passing 1 variable... to make my life easier
    				  $ch = curl_init (); 
    				  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost/install2.php');
    		 	   	  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
    				  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $username);
    				  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    				  
    				  $response = curl_exec ($ch);
    			
    				  curl_close ($responde);
    				   header ('location: install2.php');
    				 }
    		
    	     	}
    	
    }
    
    ?>