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Posted by Manuel Lemos on 01/18/08 16:40
Hello,
on 01/17/2008 10:15 PM Jerry Stuckle said the following:
>> 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
>>
>
> cURL will allow you to get or post to pages, and will return the data. I
> much prefer it over the HTTPClient class. It's more flexible.
I wonder which HTTP client you are talking about. The HTTP client I
mentioned wraps around Curl or socket functions depending on which is
more convinient to use in each PHP setup. This is the HTTP client class
I meant:
http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient
As for Curl being flexible, I wonder what you are talking about.
Personally I find it very odd that you cannot read retrieved pages with
Curl in small chunks at a time without having to use callbacks. This is
bad because it makes very difficult to retrieve and process large pages
without using external files nor exceeding the PHP memory limits.
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Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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