Automated login via form submissions using PHP

Supafly

If the title didn't confuse you, keep reading..

I'm trying to make an automated php script that will automatically pull a set of numbers from a table inside a php page.

Here's the trick, the site requires a login and expires every 24 hours, this would be a lot eaiser if the recieving page was requesting GET instead of POST.

Is there any way this can be done in php? These are the variables that are sent:

Supafly

anyone?

trooper

Simply call the page and append the varialbes to the URL

e.g http://www.whatever.com/login?RLI=N&DSN=Prop&userid=userid&password=password

However be aware that this will enable everyone to see the username and password !!!

Originally posted by Supafly
If the title didn't confuse you, keep reading..

I'm trying to make an automated php script that will automatically pull a set of numbers from a table inside a php page.

Here's the trick, the site requires a login and expires every 24 hours, this would be a lot eaiser if the recieving page was requesting GET instead of POST.

Is there any way this can be done in php? These are the variables that are sent:

<FORM action="propWeb.cfm" method="post">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="RLI" value="N">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="DSN" value="Prop">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="userid" value="***">
<INPUT type="HIDDEN" name="password" value="***">

cmburns69

I'm confused about your question.

Is there any reason why you couldn't just use $_POST to access the variables passed in the form, or do I completely misunderstand the problem?

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Supafly

Originally posted by trooper
Simply call the page and append the varialbes to the URL

e.g http://www.whatever.com/login?RLI=N&DSN=Prop&userid=userid&password=password

However be aware that this will enable everyone to see the username and password !!!

GRRRR, I thought only forms using GET will allow this

What an idiot, I should of at least tried this first, it's work beautifully.

I'm not worried about my password being shown because the way it's being implemented is that a php script will retrieve the information server-side, and display it to the client.

Thanks again.