php automating login and form submission Tutorial(s)

Question

Looking into doing some PHP script automation, Need something that will login to a system, enter some values, submit a form and return a success/failed message. Don't know if this is a factor but the website is heavy on AJAX as well.

Looking for help in where to get started, maybe some tutorials, code examples, Am I looking at the problem correctly, etc...

Thanks in advance, --Phill

Answer 1

Answered many times before:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260540/how-do-you-screen-scrape-ajax-pages
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2861/options-for-html-scraping
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/519920/screen-scraping-technique-using-php
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/857515/screen-scraping-from-a-web-page-with-a-lot-of-javascript
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/419457/screen-scraping-through-ajax-and-javascript