RE: [PHP] PHP as a web browser?
you may want to look at the curl functions as a start. thats most of the functionality down already. otherwise you'll have to parse raw data. not too hard, but can be painful to keep stateful info. you'll also have to rewrite code when the interface changes, you'll probably want to look at hotscripts or manuel lemos's script archives for prewritten html parsers. fopen/fread/fwrite is the way to go, but you'll need to interpret that data accordingly. Look at the rfc's on cookies and html if you are interested in going that route. been there done that myself (for a sms autosend script using mtnsms, but its a pia to start from scratch...) Lawrence -Original Message- From: David Yee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 17, 2001 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] PHP as a web browser? Is it possible to have PHP act like a web browser, accept cookies and post data (for login)? I'm not sure exactly where to start- I know you can use fopen/file to retrieve url's but I'm not too sure about the other steps. I would like to write and run such a php script as a cron job and have it do something like log into my web-based email account, retrieve emails, process them, save them locally, and then delete them on the server. Thanks for any help. David -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] PHP as a web browser?
if you want a php-only solution, you should probably also consider fsockopen. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php best regards Stefan Rusterholz - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:26 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP as a web browser? you may want to look at the curl functions as a start. thats most of the functionality down already. otherwise you'll have to parse raw data. not too hard, but can be painful to keep stateful info. you'll also have to rewrite code when the interface changes, you'll probably want to look at hotscripts or manuel lemos's script archives for prewritten html parsers. fopen/fread/fwrite is the way to go, but you'll need to interpret that data accordingly. Look at the rfc's on cookies and html if you are interested in going that route. been there done that myself (for a sms autosend script using mtnsms, but its a pia to start from scratch...) Lawrence -Original Message- From: David Yee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 17, 2001 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] PHP as a web browser? Is it possible to have PHP act like a web browser, accept cookies and post data (for login)? I'm not sure exactly where to start- I know you can use fopen/file to retrieve url's but I'm not too sure about the other steps. I would like to write and run such a php script as a cron job and have it do something like log into my web-based email account, retrieve emails, process them, save them locally, and then delete them on the server. Thanks for any help. David -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] PHP as a web browser?
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:48:38PM -0800, David Yee wrote: Is it possible to have PHP act like a web browser, accept cookies and post data (for login)? I'm not sure exactly where to start- I know you can use fopen/file to retrieve url's but I'm not too sure about the other steps. I would like to write and run such a php script as a cron job and have it do something like log into my web-based email account, retrieve emails, process them, save them locally, and then delete them on the server. Thanks for any help. Have a look at hte Snoopy PHP class, an object that simulates a web browser. http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/ Matt -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] PHP as a web browser?
Is it possible to have PHP act like a web browser, accept cookies and post data (for login)? I'm not sure exactly where to start- I know you can use fopen/file to retrieve url's but I'm not too sure about the other steps. I would like to write and run such a php script as a cron job and have it do something like log into my web-based email account, retrieve emails, process them, save them locally, and then delete them on the server. Thanks for any help. David -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
