Help With CURL And GET Forms

[devranger]

I have used curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POST, true); and curl_setopt($ch ,
CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, $data); on post forms to retrun results, but what
about a GET Form Method? How do you deal with these with curl? The
same commands?

The particular instance I am dealing with is a store locator and it is
not as easy as just calling the url with the variables becasue it runs
some script behind the scene that does a bunch of calculations for
calculating the lat. and lon. of the store so it can call a mappoint
map. After the form submission the url is a mess and pretty customized
to the zip code searched with lat and lon.

Here is an example of the form action:
<form Method="GET"
Action="http://go.mappoint.net/ccc/Geocode.aspx?br and=h&amp;FC=cc c&amp;FC=ccc"
Name="OutsideUS ">

Here is an mocked up example of a resulting URL after the form
submission:

http://go.mappoint.net/ccc/PrxResults.aspx?&LOC=33.8982869073812%3a-117.612688299845&CT=33.8982869073812%3a-117.612688299845%3a14.2501126753095%3a10.6875845064821&DSN=MapPoint.NA&GAD2=&GCITY=&GSTATE=&GZIP=92880&GAD3=+92880&GAD4=USA&IC=33.8982869073812%3a-117.612688299845%3a33%3a+92880&LL=en-US&AD4=USA&FC=isccc&brand=a

How would I deal with this in curl? Your help is much appreciated.

Thank you!

[Erwin Moller]

Re: Help With CURL And GET Forms

devranger wrote:

I have used curl_setopt($ch , CURLOPT_POST, true); and curl_setopt($ch ,
CURLOPT_POSTFIE LDS, $data); on post forms to retrun results, but what
about a GET Form Method? How do you deal with these with curl? The
same commands?
>
The particular instance I am dealing with is a store locator and it is
not as easy as just calling the url with the variables becasue it runs
some script behind the scene that does a bunch of calculations for
calculating the lat. and lon. of the store so it can call a mappoint
map. After the form submission the url is a mess and pretty customized
to the zip code searched with lat and lon.
>
Here is an example of the form action:
<form Method="GET"
>

Action="http://go.mappoint.net/ccc/Geocode.aspx?br and=h&amp;FC=cc c&amp;FC=ccc"

Name="OutsideUS ">
>
Here is an mocked up example of a resulting URL after the form
submission:
>
>

http://go.mappoint.net/ccc/PrxResult...=isccc&brand=a

>
How would I deal with this in curl? Your help is much appreciated.
>
Thank you!

Hi,

I think just assembling the URL should do the trick.
So just add all name/value pairs you have to the url.
eg:
$baseURL = "http://go.mappoint.net ?";
// assuming you have your info in an assoc-array:
$myNameValues = array(
"LOC" ="23.327467234" ,
"CT" ="34.8793276 89"
);

// urlencode all values
$urlEncodedPart s = array();
foreach ($myNameValues as $key =$value){
$urlEncodedPart s = $key."=".urlenc ode($value);
}

// add to baseurl
$baseURL .= implode("&",$ur lEncodedParts );


Then just use the baseurl in CURL without POST-options.

(Not tested)

Regards,
Erwin Moller