PHP - Print Remote Page - Possible?

Hi all,

I am new here and I really thank God that I found this forum! I have read the materials here on working with cURL on javascript-form-submission pages. However, I can't to get my script to work. Can anybody here please help me out or drop me a hint on where to correct my script?

==Situation==

My company utilizes http://www.myfax.com/free/ to send our company faxes. My task is to write a code that would submit files for faxes electronically.

Note: The site also requires e-mail confirmation but I haven't get to that stage yet. I have run tests on submitting fax requests both by code and manually through the site, and have confirmed that the code doesn't work on the submission level because I managed to receive confirmation e-mails for manual submissions. Also, I tried my script with different staff email addresses because I figured out that it blocks only the same e-mail address from sending more than 2 faxes a day.

Code: (php) [Select]
<?php

//target page url
$strPage_url = 'www.myfax.com/free/';

//create array of data to be posted
$arrPost_data = array (
    'ctl00$MainSection$tbRecipientName' => 'I am recipient', //max length = 50
    'ctl00$MainSection$tbRecipientCompany' => 'I am recipient company', //max length = 50
    'ctl00$MainSection$tbRecipientFaxNumber' => '+1 (206) 202-8273', //recipient fax
    'ctl00$MainSection$ddlRecipientCountry' => html_entity_decode ('{&quot;c&quot;:{&quot;i&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;United States&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;s&quot;:&quot;US&quot;},&quot;m&quot;:{&quot;i&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;v&quot;:&quot;+1 (###) ###-####&quot;,&quot;d&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;f&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;c&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;r&quot;:&quot;&quot;}}'),
    'ctl00$MainSection$tbSenderName' => 'I am sender', //max length = 50
    'ctl00$MainSection$tbSenderCompany' => 'I am sender company', //max length = 50
    'ctl00$MainSection$tbSenderEmailAddress' => 'abc@example.com', //email
    'ctl00$MainSection$nbAntiSpam$nbAntiSpam_NoBotExtender_ClientState' => '-150', //number drawn from inspecting the packages sent by manual form submission
    'ctl00$MainSection$fileUpload' => '@/files/file.pdf', //file
    'ctl00$MainSection$tbMessage' => 'hello world', //message
    '__EVENTTARGET' => '',
    '__EVENTARGUMENT' => '',
    '__VIEWSTATEENCRYPTED' => ''
    );

//visit the page and get cookies
$curl_connection = curl_init ($strPage_url);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.myfax.com/free/");
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl_connection, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'CURLCOOKIE');
$strGet_page_contents = curl_exec ($curl_connection);
curl_close ($curl_connection);

    //get page to retrieve view state and event validation
    if ( preg_match ( '/"__VIEWSTATE"[\s]+?value="([\s\S]+?)"/' , $strGet_page_contents , $arrView_state ) ) {
        $strView_state = $arrView_state[1];
        $arrPost_data['__VIEWSTATE'] = $strView_state;
    }
    if ( preg_match ( '/"__EVENTVALIDATION"[\s]+?value="([\s\S]+?)"/' , $strGet_page_contents , $arrEvent_validation ) ) {
        $strEvent_validation = $arrEvent_validation[1];
        $arrPost_data['__EVENTVALIDATION'] = $strEvent_validation;
    }
    if ( preg_match ( '/id="ctl00_MainSection_nbAntiSpam_nbAntiSpam_NoBotExtender_ClientState" value="([\s\S]+?)"/' , $strGet_page_contents , $arrAnti_spam ) ) {
        $strAnti_spam = $arrAnti_spam[1];
        $arrPost_data['ctl00$MainSection$nbAntiSpam$nbAntiSpam_NoBotExtender_ClientState'] = $strAnti_spam;
    }

//traverse array and prepare data for posting (key1=value1)
foreach ( $arrPost_data as $key => $value) {
    $arrPost_items[] = $key . '=' . $value;
}

//create the final string to be posted using implode()
$strPost_string = implode ('&', $arrPost_items);

//create cURL connection
$curl_connection = curl_init($strPage_url);

//set options
curl_setopt ($curl_connection, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.myfax.com/free/");
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
//set cookie
curl_setopt ($curl_connection, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'CURLCOOKIE');
unlink ( 'CURLCOOKIE' );
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_COOKIE, session_name() . '=' . session_id());
//set header
$arrHeaders = array ( 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8' );
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $arrHeaders );

//set data to be posted
curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $strPost_string);

//perform our request
$strResult = curl_exec($curl_connection);

//show information regarding the request - for debugging
echo "<pre>";
print_r(curl_getinfo($curl_connection));
echo curl_errno($curl_connection) . '-' . curl_error($curl_connection);
echo "<hr>";
var_dump ($arrPost_items);
echo "</pre>";

//close the connection
curl_close($curl_connection);
?>

Hi dear community

i want to run a Curl  to get the contents of a remote web page into a PHP variable



<?php
//
// The PHP curl module supports the received page to be returned in a variable
// if told.
//
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.myurl.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$result=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>

I declare this variable:($ch)

Well - can i work with this variable - eg. to parse this with a parser!?

look forward to hear from you

$result=curl_exec ($ch);

gretings

Hey guys I usually code in C and I started looking into PHP which I think is pretty good. I'm wondering if there's a function that can be used to execute a command from a remote server on my local machine???

As example if I'd like to have a PHP page/script running on my server which when logged onto would display me a page with buttons like "PING, NETSTAT, IPCONFIG, TRACERT" and when clicked on it would exec those commands but not on the server but from my machine??? So that I would get the PING from my local machine to google.com instead of from the server to google.com

??? making any sense ??? thanks

Hello,

I need to execute a remote web page (distant server) every X seconds.

How is it possible and is there any way to make it look exactly like a normal user request through a standard browser like Firefox, Chrome, etc. ?

I've heard of cURL, but it seems that servers may block it, so there must be somehow a difference between a usual user request and a cURL execution.

Thank you for any help ! :-)
Matthew

I have the following code but I cannot get it to print the results of the array into my web page.  Help would be so appreciated!!

Code: [Select]
$sql = "SELECT RegName, SireID, DamID FROM pedigrees WHERE ID=";

$DoggieIDQ = $sql . $values["ID"];
$DoggieIDR = db_query($DoggieIDQ,$conn);


$DoggieID = $_GET['ID'];
$Depth = 1;
$DepthLimit=8;

function getParents($DoggieID, $Depth, $DepthLimit)

 {
    $Sire = getSire($DoggieID);
    $Dam = getDAM($DoggieID);
    $Depth++;
    if ($Depth == $DepthLimit) {
        return array($Sire, $Dam);
    } else {
        # Now get grandparents too
        $SireParents = getParents($Sire, $Depth, $DepthLimit);
        $DamParents = getParents($Dam, $Depth, $DepthLimit);
        return array($Sire, $Dam, $SireParents, $DamParents);
    }
}