Posted by mr_marcin on 10/23/40 12:01

Hi

Does anybody have some idea how to input some text into inputbox on
one page, than press some button on that page, that will load another
page, and finally read the responde? Suppose I want to write a price
comparision engine, where I would like to parse shops website for
price each time user wants.

I have found similar feature in Symfony framework, called sfBrowser
(or sfTestBrowser). These are made for automated functional testing,
but should provide the functinality I am requesting.

The question is: will this be efficient enough? Maybe there are other
ways to achieve this? Of course I can always try to make it more
manually - look for some pattern in url (search is usually done via
GET), and parse output html.

Thanks for help
Marcin

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