Get PHP to submit form info?

[intensecogitation]

How can I get PHP to submit form info (I put the info in the URL with username=blah&password=blah, etc) without redirecting the visitor's browser there?

[lnmnky]

Need to break it down. I think there's some confusion here.

Submission of a form is all client side. You either click, or mimic a click with Javascript or vbscript.

You don't want to redirect the browser? Have you just arrived at the page with the querystring?

What you need to do in that case is REQUEST the data from the query string.

If you are at the page, and they have typed the data into a form, and you want to be able submit a form without redirecting. Then you can use javascript to preform and AJAX call.

In this case you still need to build a PHP request page to handle the data in the form submission in the background.

OR....

Explain a little more.

[DrDrrae]

Do mean that you don't want the '?$variable=go+here$variable2=leave+here' part? If so, you have to use a POST instead of a GET.

[intensecogitation]

<?php
$newvar = file_get_contents("
http://neopets.com/login.phtml?username=BLANK&password=BLANK&destination=neopets.com/stockmarket.phtml?type=portfolio"); echo $newvar;
$html = file_get_contents("http://neopets.com/stockmarket.phtml?type=portfolio");
preg_match("/<marquee>(.*)<\/marquee>/i", $html, $match);
echo $match[0];
?>

That's my current code.

I want the script to login without redirecting, go to the portfolio page and preg_match a marquee there, then echo the preg_match result onto the page the visitor is at.

[lnmnky]

  neoaddict said:

<?php
$newvar = file_get_contents("
http://neopets.com/login.phtml?username=BLANK&password=BLANK&destination=neopets.com/stockmarket.phtml?type=portfolio"); echo $newvar;
$html = file_get_contents("http://neopets.com/stockmarket.phtml?type=portfolio");
preg_match("/<marquee>(.*)<\/marquee>/i", $html, $match);
echo $match[0];
?>

That's my current code.

I want the script to login without redirecting, go to the portfolio page and preg_match a marquee there, then echo the preg_match result onto the page the visitor is at.

I don't think it will work as you will create a new session on the second file_get_contents . and therefore not be logged in.

[intensecogitation]

Removed the second file_get_contents, no effect.

[GatorV]

If you don't want to redirect take out the echo $newvar; since this echoes the html and it must have a hidden redirect to their site.

for what you need to do it's somewhat hard you need to use the CURL library of PHP to enter the site and navigate mantaining a user session (inside your php script).

Then get your info a close your session.

It can be done, depends on your PHP skills :yes:

[intensecogitation]

<?php

function GetCurlPage ($page) { 
$page = "http://neopets.com/login.phtml?username=TEST&password=TEST&destination=/stockmarket.phtml?type=portfolio";

$ch = curl_init($page);

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $page);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$tmp = curl_exec($ch);

// close curl resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);

$tmp = preg_match("/<marquee>(.*)<\/marquee>/i", $tmp, $match);
return $tmp;
echo $match[0];
}

GetCurlPage($page);
?>

That's what I got so far, but it still won't display any matches.

[GatorV]

your function it's not correct.

at the end you have:

return $tmp;

echo $match[0];

when PHP finds return it will terminate the function

[intensecogitation]

Got rid of the return, but the following code won't visit the login URL and won't preg_match, but will visit the stockmarket URL:

<?php
$page = "http://neopets.com/login.phtml?username=neoaddict_account&password=transphamatic1&destination=/stockmarket.phtml";
$ch = curl_init($page);

// set URL and other appropriate options
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://neopets.com/login.phtml?username=TEST&password=TEST&destination=/stockmarket.phtml");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

echo curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch); 
$retrievedhtml = file_get_contents("http://neopets.com/stockmarket.phtml");
if (!preg_match("#<marquee>(.*)<\/marquee>#i", $retrievedhtml, $match)){
echo ":-(";
}
else{
echo $match[0];
}

curl_close($ch);

echo $match[0];
?>