Hi,
I'm trying to use libcurl to grab some pages from a website i think was wrote in ASP.
The web site is: http://madisonheightscity.is.bsasoftware.com
it's for public tax records.
Manually you'd click on "Tax Information Search" on the left. Then search on a street name like "alden" and that's it. It works fine when done manually!
The problems
I have my PHP script almost working. But I cant figure out what I'm doing wrong with these forms. I'm not sure if it's an ASP thing or what.
1) No matter what I set RadioButtonRecordCount for records per page to, it doesnt change.
2) I wrote a function to grab the "view state", but when I try to use this, it says invalid state.
PLEASE HELP!
Here's what I have for code so far:
<?php
function getviewstate($result)
{
$pattern = "/name=\"__VIEWSTATE\" value=\"[A-Z0-9+=\/]+/i";
preg_match($pattern,$result, $matches);
foreach ($matches as $match)
{
}
$match = substr($match,26,strlen($match));
return($match);
}
//start
$cookie_file_path = "cookies/cookiejar.txt"; // Please set your Cookie File path
$fp = fopen("$cookie_file_path","w") or die("<BR><B>Unable to open cookie file $mycookiefile for write!<BR>");
fclose($fp);
//sets city name
$LOGINURL = "http://madisonheightscity.is.bsasoftware.com";
$agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
//goes to tax info page
$LOGINURL = "https://is.bsasoftware.com/bsa.is/TaxServices/ServiceTaxSearch.aspx?i=3&appid=1";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$POSTFIELDS);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$viewstate = getviewstate($result);
//search form
$LOGINURL = "https://is.bsasoftware.com/bsa.is/TaxServices/ServiceTaxSearch.aspx?i=3&appid=1";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'RadioButtonRecordCount=35&TextBoxStreetName_sna=ann&__VIEWSTATE='.
$viewstate);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
$viewstate = getviewstate($result);
print $result;
?>
