php submit javascript form [closed]

Question

I'm parsing a website with php to retrieve data. Part of the data becomes visible after selecting values in a javascript combobox.

Is their a way for php to select a value in the combobox, submit it and handle result?

Answer 1

I ended up using the Developer Tools from Chrome on the network tab. This allowed me to capture the form data that is been posted with the javascript combobox.

With cURL I performed the post in php.

Answer 2

I'm afraid not. You will have to dissect the page you are scraping to see where the data that becomes visible comes from. Use Firebug to help you.