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Name: Browser Support forum
Base name: browser
Description: Retrieve Web pages emulating a browser
Version: 1.0
Required PHP version: 5.0
License: Freely Distributable
All time users: 817 users
All time rank: 2807
Week users: 9 users
Week rank: 804
 
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Home page: http://www.thesquareplanet.com/
Age: 19
All time rank: 238
Week rank: 178

Innovation Award

PHP Programming Innovation award nominee
June 2009
Number 3
 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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Group folder image HTML HTML generation and processing View top rated classes
Group folder image HTTP HTTP protocol clients, headers and cookies View top rated classes
Group folder image Testing Tools to help verifying that software works as expected View top rated classes

Detailed description

This class can be used to retrieve Web pages emulating a browser.

It can retrieve a give 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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Packages needed by this class

Class Dependency Why it is needed
Remote Form
Recommended
 Used for handling forms submission

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File Role Description
Plain text file browser.class.php Class The class sources
Plain text file browser.example.php Example An example of how the script can be used
Plain text file curl_http_client.php Class Curl_HTTP_Client slightly modified to allow cURL to follow redirects
Plain text file remoteform.class.php Class RemoteForm class for submitting forms. Also exists as a separate project on PHPClasses
Download all files: browser.tar.gz browser.zip
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