Question

The following PHP code works and it displays a form located on that page, my problem is how to Autofill the firstname textfield ApplicantInfo1_FirstName using PHP in that form ?

<?
   $handle=curl_init('https://www.progressivelp.com/onlineapplication/onlineapplication.aspx?sid=Metro2674957490&kid=1');
   curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
   curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
   curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
   $content = curl_exec($handle);
   echo $content; // show target page
?>

Answer 1

Quick and dirty way using a regex:

$content = preg_replace(
  '/ApplicantInfo1_FirstName\"/i',
  'ApplicantInfo1_FirstName" value="My Name"',
  $content
);

• Find the input id
• Replace the id with the same but add the value attribute

Edit:

For the css part, it’s almost the same:

$content = preg_replace(
  '/text\/css" href\=\"/i',
  'text/css" href="http://progressivelp.com/',
  $content
);