curl将帖子数据提交给仅在表单提交时出现的输入

Question

I'm writing a crawler in PHP that will enter data into my website. I need to submit data in order to my inputs to display on the page (they're not just hidden). Normally, there is an AJAX process that runs on a button click to display these inputs.

I have returned an HTML doc with these inputs in there; however, my problem is that I can't curl again with my data before these inputs go away. I've tried using curl_multi_exec and it doesn't seem to help.

Also, all of this is at the same URL (form action and form I want to submit).

Answer 1

For Ruby or Perl, the Mechanize library is great for this scenario. For PHP, we want to find a framework library similar on PHP, which leads to this Q/A:

Is there a PHP equivalent of Perl's WWW::Mechanize?

Enjoy.