On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:16 -0400, Rahul Sitaram Johari wrote: > Ave, > > Basically I¹m throwing an account number to a webpage on an external website > And I want to catch the result in some sort to find out if the account > number exists. > > Let¹s say I have this form: > <FORM ACTION="http://www.somewhere.com/acc.asp"; METHOD="post" NAME="frm"> > <input TYPE="TEXT" NAME="ACCTNUM" SIZE="20" MAXLENGTH="15"> > <input TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="GOOD" VALUE="0"> > <INPUT NAME="frmSubmit" TYPE="submit" VALUE="Let's Go!"> > </FORM> > > Now when I click submit the browser goes to www.somewhere.com if the > account number is good, it¹ll bring up further option if not it > redirects to an error page. > > www.somewhere.com is an external site I don¹t have access to it¹s codes or > variables. > I want to be able to determine if that form succeeded in getting to the > Account Page, i.e., the Account Number was good or if it failed and > redirected to the error page. > Is there any way to do this? > Is there perhaps a way to read the output of that page and store it in a > text file? > > Thanks. > > PS: Anyone with an inquisitive mind NO! I¹m not trying to hack someone¹s > website. ³Somewhere.Com² is our client and we need to hit their website to > determine if the account is good or not for a service we¹re providing them. > Right now we¹re trying to avoid requesting them for their source/code or > help for that matter. Use cURL to post the form to the remote site from within PHP. Then you can process the resulting HTML yourself to determine if it succeeded. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
