Re: [PHP] cuRL script won't submit

many thanks.. I have been working on this for weeks!
now I have to figure out how to extract that dynamic URL from the form before I post..

----- Original Message ----
From: Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com>
To: Test User <usertest90@yahoo.com>
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 8:54:16 AM
Subject: Re: [php] cuRL script won't submit

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Test User <usertest90@yahoo.com> wrote:
> why will this script not submit the form - it does input data into the form - but not submit it. below is the script and then the html form.. thanks
>
[snip!]
> curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://192.168.10.10/?link=answer&l=c&qid=25AA98zRa";);
[snip!]
> /////////////////////////////// below is the HTML form \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
>
> <form action="/question/act;_lt=Aktsgb5HMZ0vBEUSHj_3I1YdzKIX;_lv=3" onsubmit="this.submit1.disabled=true;" method="post" name="template_form">
[snip!]

Because you're submitting it to the wrong page. What you're doing
will submit to the default (index) page in that directory, as opposed
to the form action. Change this:

curl_setopt($ch,
CURLOPT_URL,"http://192.168.10.10/?link=answer&l=c&qid=25AA98zRa";);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
"link=answer&qid=25AA98zRa&.crumb=x88&textarea=her e+ya+go&prev_ans_page=&e=0&submit1=Submit");

To this:

curl_setopt($ch,
CURLOPT_URL,"http://192.168.10.10/question/act;_lt=Aktsgb5HMZ0vBEUSHj_3I1YdzKIX;_lv=3");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
"link=answer&qid=25AA98zRa&.crumb=x88&textarea=her e+ya+go&prev_ans_page=&e=0&submit1=Submit");


Also, note two things:

1.) I removed the semicolon from the end of the CURLOPT_URL
value (between the quotes and parentheses).
2.) The form action looks like it's most likely dynamic, so
you'll have to think of a workaround yourself if it is.

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On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Test User <usertest90@yahoo.com> wrote:
> many thanks.. I have been working on this for weeks!
> now I have to figure out how to extract that dynamic URL from the form before I post..

This may help to start:

<?php
$data = file_get_contents('http://www.website.com/html_form.html');
preg_match('/form action="(.*)"/Uis',$data,$matches);
print_r($matches);
?>

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