WWW:Mechanize for PHP?

[TerryMc]

Is there anything available that uses PHP that allows you to not only screen scrape, but fill out forms and navigate the site similar to WWW:Mechanize?

[coopster]

Not a lot of folks are familiar with Mechanize here TerryMc.

Can you explain what you are trying to accomplish? Or describe in detail what Mechanize does for you that you want PHP to do?

[TerryMc]

sorry, www:mechanize is a perl module that lets me log into a site, follow a link I want it to and then parse out the information.. A little more advanced than a screen scrape because of the log in and dynamic links that have to be followed.

[coopster]

I'm not familiar with any packages or classes off hand, but places to search may be some of the open source sites like sourceforge, hotscripts, etc. PEAR may also have a similar class to perform this job.

Or perhaps you could use curl [php.net] as an option to roll your own solution?