Re: [PHP] Re: talking to a web page

[Justin Patrin]

One last thing. If all you need to do is go to a page and not navigate 
it, you could just use HTTP_Request, upon which HTTP_Client is built. 
Then again, if you have multiple request to do and have to keep sending 
the auth data, the Client would be best.

David T-G wrote:

Justin, et al --

...and then Justin Patrin said...
% 
% You can use PEAR's HTTP_Client package 
% (http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Client) to connect to a website, do 
% authentication, post forms, handle redirects, etc. It also keeps track 
% of cookies.

Oh, goodie; that sounds great.

% 
% Here's a sample (note that the URLs in this will probably not work):
% 
% require_once('HTTP/Client.php');
% $client = &new HTTP_Client(array('user' => 'username', 'password' => 
% 'password'));

That certainly seems easy enough.

% $code = $client->post('http://www.example.com/script.asp',
%                       array('var1' = 'val1',
%                             'VAR2' => 'val2'));
OK, so I don't actually need to navigate the page but instead just fill
in the fields and then send it.  Very cool.
% $code = $client->get('http://www.example.com/loginRequired.php');

Now to figure out how to try it out :-)

Thanks & HAND

:-D
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