Let PHP Submit Forms And Grab Result Page

I need to grab data from a result page after submitting a tracking code into a form. But I don't have a clue how to do that.

Suppose the form element name in question is like 'name="trackingcode"' and the action="handler.php".

Simply doing handler.php?trackingcode=1234 doesn't work since it works with session id's.

So I need code that actually submits the form instead of spoofing the end result artificially.

Can this be done? I know you can get php to log in somewhere and grab that data so I guess that's the same.

Can anyone point me in the right directions please?

 

is it a post or get form?

 

POST. But I've solved it with Advanced HTTP Class.

 

it wasnt adsense was it?

Ive got a function which emulates a HTTP POst but i cant get my adsense stats using it....

 

post forms use the hidden imput element to send vars.

<input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
<input type="hidden" name="gallery" value="$gallery" />

 

yeah i posted all the variables - even hidden ones.

They also use HTTP POST instead of HTTP GET which you can emulate with cURL

 

You can emulate all you want, if the recieving end wants post vars and they are specifically addressed in $_POST, I see no reason $_GET vars will be handled.

Most apps are specific as to which method they fetch from that I've see.

And another thing, if you are emulating a post form to do an auto submit, some apps aslo have referrer checks to disallow that.

Just a guess.

 

Referers can be set with this class. You can set the headers, user agent and all sorts.

Nothing malicious I'm doing though.

 

Of course not, we trust ya!

Thanks for the tip.

 

It's here by the way:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/576.html

Couriers are backwards here in the UK so I'm grabbing tracking details. Don't understand why even the nation's largest courier doesn't offer XML tracking.

 

Yeah you can pass referer and User Agent in cURL

Still cant bloody get adsense working

 

heres my function:

But it still doesnt work :


function HTTP_Post($URL,$data, $referrer="") {

// parsing the given URL
$URL_Info=parse_url($URL);

// Building referer
if($referer=="") // if not given use this script as referer
$referer=$_SERVER["SCRIPT_URI"];


$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$URL_Info["host"].$URL_Info["path"]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $referer );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$result=@curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
return $result;
}

 

Check out the Class linked above. It's really dead-easy.

Fill out the form variables (Install FireFox Web Developer Toolbar and go Forms - View Form Information) in the $form array, set the post data and it works.

 

Can you use curl or the http.inc script to "spoof" an IP address?

I'm trying to pass names and emails to a Get Response auto responder as well as capturing them myself, so I figure the easiest option is to submit them to my own PHP script and then use my script to submit them to Get Response. However, the IP address stored with Get Response will be wrong. Is there any way I can pass through the user's original IP?