simulating post

[wilfordbrimley]

i'm wondering if theres something similar in php to libwww in perl
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$f = HTML::Form->parse("http://www.example.com/index.html");
$action = "http://login.example.com/login.cgi?etcetcetc=";
$f->action($action);
$f->push_input("text",{email=>"[e-mail]"});
$f->push_input("password",{password=>"pw"});
$f->click
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so i can login via a simulated post from php rather than through a form

[crazychris]

you won;t be able to login that way, as the 'server' will do the login, not the 'client'. There are ways of sending post data, but as a login, it just won't work.

[wilfordbrimley]

I understand the server is doing the login, but its getting information from a form...i'd appreciate if you could elaborate on this or direct me to some more information...at least how to do it assuming its not a login... thanks.

[wilfordbrimley]

nevermind..."sending post data" google did the trick.
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/12039/fid/51

[wilfordbrimley]

http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/mimocsumissions.php

[thorpe]

Take a look at the [man]curl[/man] extension. Much eaiser than rolling your own using sockets.