Re: PHP as a web browser?

if you want a php-only solution, you should probably also consider fsockopen. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php best regards Stefan Rusterholz ----- Original Message ----- From: <Lawrence.Sheed@dfait-maeci.gc.ca> To: <david@coolcomputing.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:26 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP as a web browser? > you may want to look at the curl functions as a start. > > thats most of the functionality down already. otherwise you'll have to > parse raw data. not too hard, but can be painful to keep stateful info. > > you'll also have to rewrite code when the interface changes, you'll probably > want to look at hotscripts or manuel lemos's script archives for prewritten > html parsers. > > fopen/fread/fwrite is the way to go, but you'll need to interpret that data > accordingly. Look at the rfc's on cookies and html if you are interested in > going that route. > > been there done that myself (for a sms autosend script using mtnsms, but its > a pia to start from scratch...) > > > Lawrence > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Yee [mailto:david@coolcomputing.com] > Sent: December 17, 2001 3:49 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] PHP as a web browser? > > > Is it possible to have PHP act like a web browser, accept cookies and post > data (for login)? I'm not sure exactly where to start- I know you can use > fopen/file to retrieve url's but I'm not too sure about the other steps. I > would like to write and run such a php script as a cron job and have it do > something like log into my web-based email account, retrieve emails, process > them, save them locally, and then delete them on the server. Thanks for any > help. > > David > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >