Help With CURL And GET Forms

[devranger]

I have used curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); and curl_setopt($ch,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); on post forms to retrun results, but what
about a GET Form Method? How do you deal with these with curl? The
same commands?

The particular instance I am dealing with is a store locator and it is
not as easy as just calling the url with the variables becasue it runs
some script behind the scene that does a bunch of calculations for
calculating the lat. and lon. of the store so it can call a mappoint
map. After the form submission the url is a mess and pretty customized
to the zip code searched with lat and lon.

Here is an example of the form action:
<form Method="GET"
Action="http://go.mappoint.net/ccc/Geocode.aspx?brand=h&amp;FC=ccc&amp;FC=ccc"
Name="OutsideUS">

Here is an mocked up example of a resulting URL after the form
submission:

http://go.mappoint.net/ccc/PrxResult...=isccc&brand=a

How would I deal with this in curl? Your help is much appreciated.

Thank you!

[Erwin Moller]

devranger wrote:

I have used curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); and curl_setopt($ch,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); on post forms to retrun results, but what
about a GET Form Method? How do you deal with these with curl? The
same commands?

The particular instance I am dealing with is a store locator and it is
not as easy as just calling the url with the variables becasue it runs
some script behind the scene that does a bunch of calculations for
calculating the lat. and lon. of the store so it can call a mappoint
map. After the form submission the url is a mess and pretty customized
to the zip code searched with lat and lon.

Here is an example of the form action:
<form Method="GET"

Action="http://go.mappoint.net/ccc/Geocode.aspx?brand=h&amp;FC=ccc&amp;FC=ccc"

Name="OutsideUS">

Here is an mocked up example of a resulting URL after the form
submission:

http://go.mappoint.net/ccc/PrxResult...=isccc&brand=a

>
How would I deal with this in curl? Your help is much appreciated.

Thank you!

Hi,

I think just assembling the URL should do the trick.
So just add all name/value pairs you have to the url.
eg:
$baseURL = "http://go.mappoint.net?";
// assuming you have your info in an assoc-array:
$myNameValues = array(
"LOC" ="23.327467234",
"CT" ="34.879327689"
);

// urlencode all values
$urlEncodedParts = array();
foreach ($myNameValues as $key =$value){
$urlEncodedParts = $key."=".urlencode($value);
}

// add to baseurl
$baseURL .= implode("&",$urlEncodedParts );
Then just use the baseurl in CURL without POST-options.

(Not tested)

Regards,
Erwin Moller