从Web服务器脚本（PHP），Cronjob发送登录和表单信息？

Question

I have friends who book rooms at a university, but can only book after midnight the next day when all the other students have booked. They don't want to stay up until midnight to book and wanted to know if a script could be written to send the login user details, encrypted on the webserver, and their usual day and time.The booking information is just a standard HTML form with relevant inputs. This data can be auto-generated from a list.

Is this possible to do from a webserver, or will they have to use their home machines and have a refresh at 00:01?

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I am middle-tier OO C++ developer

Well this should be dead-simple for you then. After you learn one language you should be able to pick up other, similar languages by reading some basic docs. Here's the basic tutorial from the official doc. Basically just stop worrying about memory allocation and static typing, read up on how PHP does classes, and then dig into cURL like jeroen mentioned.

Honestly, you're lucky this didn't get closed as 'not a real question' before I even got a chance to post a snippy comment. StackOverflow is very "code-oriented" and the questions that get the most attention are the ones where people post code that they've actually tried running along with a description of what's gone wrong and/or error info.

Your question, though better written than most, still comes across as, "I have tried/written nothing, someone please spoon-feed me some code". So go try some code and if you hit something you can't figure your way past, post that and I'll probably sound like less of a b-hole.