PHP interacting with another website's form?

hi,

i am trying to use PHP to submit a form from a third-party website to
another party's form (on their website), and i am not so sure how to go
about doing it. in a more simple way of saying it, i will provide an
example:

i want to use a form that i made on my website, and use it to search
through google without actually having to go to the google website. the
results, however, could appear on their own page and not be styled for
my website.

how could i go about doing this? hopefully this was easily understood,
and thanks for the help!

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:32:51 +0100, Alek <alekrost@gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> i am trying to use PHP to submit a form from a third-party website to
> another party's form (on their website), and i am not so sure how to go
> about doing it. in a more simple way of saying it, i will provide an
> example:
>
> i want to use a form that i made on my website, and use it to search
> through google without actually having to go to the google website. the
> results, however, could appear on their own page and not be styled for
> my website.
>
> how could i go about doing this? hopefully this was easily understood,
> and thanks for the help!
>

For any third company form receptor to properly react to your form, you
have to send that receptor the same form elements it receives from its own
form. This means that, to post to the Google search engine, you have to
provide the input elements from Google's own search form.

You can extend that, of course, but you can't have less than that. You may
try removing elements one by one to see which aren't important, but you
can never depend on that knowledge unless you also can look into that form
receptor.

Once you have the same form inputs, you can send the form to your own form
receptor first, but to receive (for instance) Google's search results, in
the end you will have to send the form to Google's form receptor (the
action attribute) using the original send method (usually GET or POST).

A good start: copy their form code. It's freely available in the page of
their form.

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