Browser: Retrieve Web pages emulating a browser
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This class can be used to retrieve Web pages emulating a browser.
It can retrieve a given page, parse it and proceed retrieving the pages or content that would result of clicking on given links or submitting forms in the initial page.
The class provides functions to locate the links to click or form to submit either specifying a Xpath expression or searching page elements by attribute.
It can retrieve a given page, parse it and proceed retrieving the pages or content that would result of clicking on given links or submitting forms in the initial page.
The class provides functions to locate the links to click or form to submit either specifying a Xpath expression or searching page elements by attribute.
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HTML generation and processing | View top rated classes |
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HTTP protocol clients, headers and cookies | View top rated classes |
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| Innovation Award |
 June 2009 Number 3 Prize: One book of choice by Manning |
Sometimes you need to emulate the access of an user to a site, either for retrieving information, or for testing if a site is working properly. This class makes it easy to build scripts that emulate the access of users to a sequence of pages, by clicking on links and submitting forms. Manuel Lemos |
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| Remote Form | .zip .tar.gz |
Used for handling forms submission | Recommended |
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| browser.class.php |
Class | The class sources |
 browser.example.php |
Example | An example of how the script can be used |
| curl_http_client.php |
Class | Curl_HTTP_Client slightly modified to allow cURL to follow redirects |
| remoteform.class.php |
Class | RemoteForm class for submitting forms. Also exists as a separate project on PHPClasses |
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