Re: PHP Data Mining/Data Scraping

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THanks,

I will have far to much data to append to a GET request so a POST is the
best option I think.


"Myron Turner" <turnermm02@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
>> On Sat, May 19, 2007 10:22 pm, Shannon Whitty wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for a piece of software or coding that will let me post a
>>> form
>>> to another URL, accept the response, search it for a specific
>>> "success"
>>> string and then let me continue processing the rest of my program.
>>>
>>
>> http://php.net/curl
>>
>>
>>> I want to accept queries on behalf of my supplier, forward it to them
>>> behind
>>> the scenes, accept their response and display it within my website.
>>>
>>> Has anyone had any experience with this?  Is there a simple, basic
>>> utility
>>> to let me do this?
>>>
>>> I was kind of hoping I could avoid developing it myself.
>>>
> As I understand this, you want to create a web page of your own which
> accepts requests for customers who are going to order products from your
> supplier.  You want to have a form on your page which accepts their
> requests, then forward the form data on to your supplier's web site, where
> presumably it will be processed.  Then you want to retrieve the response
> from your supplier's page, and display the result on your own web page.
> You suggest that the response string for "success" is relatively stable
> and that this string is this what you want to search for in the response.
>
> This doesn't sound like a very complicated problem.  You can do this
> either using Ajax or not.  The basic solution is the same.  You have a
> script on the server which accepts the form data from your page and
> re-sends it to the supplier's site.  If your supplier's site accepts form
> data using GET, then you can simply create a url with the form data
> attached in a query string:
>
>     http://my.supplier.com?fdata_1=data1&fdata_2=data2
>
> Send this url to your suppler using file_get_contents:
>
>          $return_string =
> file_get_contents("http://my.supplier.com?fdata_1=data1&fdata_2=data2";);
>
> This will return the html file as a string which you can then parse with
> preg_match() for the 'success' string.
> The problem is more involved if your supplier doesn't accept GET but only
> accepts POST.  Then you  have to use either curl or fsockopen to post your
> data.   I've tested the following fockopen script and it worked for me:
>
> <?php
> $fp = fsockopen("my.supplier.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
> if (!$fp) {
>    echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
> } else {
>    $out = "POST http://my.supplier.com/form_page.html / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
>    $out .= "Host: my.supplier.com\r\n";
>
>    $post = "form_data_1=data_1&formdata_2=data_2";
>    $len = strlen($post);
>    $post .= "\r\n";
>    $out .="Content-Length: $len\r\n";  $out .= "Connection:
> Close\r\n\r\n";
>
>    $out .= $post;
>
>    fwrite($fp, $out);
>    $result= "";
>    while (!feof($fp)) {
>        $result .=  fgets($fp, 128);
>    }
>    fclose($fp);
>    echo $result;
>
>
> }
> ?>
>
> You have to adhere to the above sequence.  The posted data comes last and
> it is preceded by a content-length header which tells the receiving server
> how long the posted data is.  The returned result is the html page
> returned from your posted request.
>
> -- 
>
> _____________________
> Myron Turner
> http://www.room535.org
> http://www.bstatzero.org
> http://www.mturner.org/XML_PullParser/

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