Can PHP surf for me?

mrdance

I would like to create a script that goes to another page, enter a text in a field and clicks on a submit button. What can you do in PHP to accomplish similar actions? I suppose you can just send the link with values but can PHP do more?

Do you know of any documentation that concerns retrieving an URL in a variable?

Thanks / Henrik

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1) What more is there to do?
All your browser does is display the page an let you enter the data in the form. Then it just sends that data through the URL (or POST method) just like PHP would do.

You can easily get a page into a variable (read the manual about fopen()) but finding the form and the input tags is much more difficult.

mrdance

For example, I would like to abuse 😉 a sms-service. Everytime the servicepage is loaded a hidden field stores an integer. I can only use that integer in the URL when I have opened the page and then presses submit. Submitting any else variable gives no result. Therefore, it would be interesting to open the page. Fetch the variable. And then submit it along with the other static variables.

mickro

Henrik,

You can use PHP & Javascript to acomplish this (although I can't think of any reason why you would want to!!)

//PAGE1

//PAGE2

<head>
<script>
function submitForm() {
document.myform.submit();
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="submitForm()">

<input type="text" value="<? echo $variable_to_pass; ?>" name="variable">

</form>

</body>

Hope this helps (please let me know why you would want to do this)

Mike
www.digitalegg.net

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Well then I guess you'd better start reading the manual and brush up on your regular expressions... :-)