Fill in a form on external website?

[EchoFool]

Hey

 

I have a page which generates a code that you can activate on a different website - but i was wondering if there was a way for PHP to fill the input box automatically for you when you click a link to the page which contained the input box ?

 

Say it was named

 

<input typt="text" value = "" name="code" >

 

And that was on a completely different server - and you want "12345" to be auto filled into that input box from your page how can this be achieved (if at all )  ?

 

 

[Deoctor]

I dont think this is at all possible..with php..

[$Three3]

Yeah, I also was wondering if there was a way to do this?

[aleX_hill]

If I understand correctly, then No, there is no way for PHP to do this.

 

PHP is a server based language which parses a page as it is created.

 

What you are trying to do is more client based (ie get the code that this website has given me, and stick it into this other website i am accessing).

 

I doubt there would be a way in js either, but I am not a js expert.

[EchoFool]

Damn -  thats a shame

[thewooleymammoth]

you might be able to with js  if you put the page in a frame, ubt i dont know for sure

[trq]

You can bypass the form altogether and submit your required data with curl. Not sure if that's what your after though.

[EchoFool]

ohh that be good thorpe! How is that done?

[thewooleymammoth]

You have to have curl installed. CHeck with your server company

 

http://php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php

[Deoctor]

curl can do that ....

though there are some problems in that one..

check this code for example..

 

<?php
$userAgent = "IE 7 - Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)";
$target_url = "http://google.com";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$target_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
if (!$html) {

    

echo "
cURL error number:" .curl_errno($ch);

    

echo "
cURL error:" . curl_error($ch);

    

exit;
}
else
{
    var_dump($html);
}
?>

[EchoFool]

Confused on what that actually does?

[inversesoft123]

Simplest way allow your code to read sourcecode from remote webpage

 

$file = file("http://site.com/form.php?$QUERY_STRING");
$file = @implode("", $file); 
echo $file;

[jl5501]

Yes, with cURL you can retrieve the form, fill it in, then post it back to the form's submit page.

 

This will not work if the form contains a captcha image or other form of auto submit blocking

[Deoctor]

Confused on what that actually does?

 

the code which i gave will actually fetch the html code of the page and provide you with that, u can write this to a file as well to see the output code..

but i was actually displaying it out.