I accessed a page using php curl that has a form with default values inside hidden inputs, lets say
<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="barbazz">
How do I get the value barbazz, using php, I am thinking of doing this:
...
$re = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$i = strpos('foo') + 11;
$val = substr($re, $i, 7);
Is there a better way to do it?
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($your_html);
Read: DOM library.
Example:
$html = '<html>
<body>
<form>
<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="barbazz">
<input type="hidden" name="bar" value="something">
</form>
</body>
</html>';
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($html);
foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('input') as $input) {
if ($input->getAttribute('name') == 'foo') {
echo $input->getAttribute('value');
}
}