Automation

[Wescotte]

I'm looking for resources on how to use PHP (or if there are better
tools for this than PHP) to access a web page. Login, fill in some form
data and send a file. Since our system generates all the data we upload
via a automatic process I'm trying to eliminate the manual process of
actually submitting the data. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Eric

[Andy Hassall]

Re: Automation

On 6 Jul 2005 12:35:12 -0700, "Wescotte" <wescotte@earth link.net> wrote:
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>I'm looking for resources on how to use PHP (or if there are better
>tools for this than PHP) to access a web page. Login, fill in some form
>data and send a file. Since our system generates all the data we upload
>via a automatic process I'm trying to eliminate the manual process of
>actually submitting the data. Any suggestions?[/color]

Sounds like a job for Perl's WWW:Mechanize?

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[Daniel Tryba]

Re: Automation

Wescotte <wescotte@earth link.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm looking for resources on how to use PHP (or if there are better
> tools for this than PHP) to access a web page. Login, fill in some form
> data and send a file. Since our system generates all the data we upload
> via a automatic process I'm trying to eliminate the manual process of
> actually submitting the data. Any suggestions?[/color]

curl, either from within PHP or CLI or any other place that lets you
call it.

[Wescotte]

Re: Automation

Thanks alot

It appears CURL does pretty much everything I need.

Eric

[f700b]

Re: Automation



Wescotte ha escrito:[color=blue]
> Thanks alot
>
> It appears CURL does pretty much everything I need.
>
> Eric[/color]

I'm trying to eliminate the manual process of
submit the data with php curl. I have the below code
I know the username and password, how can i login
via an automatic process?
Thanks

<?
$url='http://path/to/html/page';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>

[Wescotte]

Re: Automation

I've only read it's features I have yet to actually use CURL so I'm
unable to help you right now.

Eric