[SOLVED] Parsing a page, getting the contents of an input field?

Parsing a page, getting the contents of an input field?

I want to open a page using PHP, and get two values from two input fields.

The input fields are like so:

<input type="hidden" name="__ONE" id="__ONE" value="/randomletters" />  
<input type="hidden" name="__TWO" id="__TWO" value="/randomletters" />

How would I be able to go about doing this?

Scraping this page, and returning the value for input "__ONE" as $one, and so on...

Solution

Use an HTML parser. http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ is one example.

$html = file_get_html('mydocument.html');
$values = array();
foreach($html->find('input') as $element)
{
    $values[$element->id] = $element->value;
}

print_r( $values );

...

Array
(
    [__ONE] => /randomletters
    [__TWO] => /randomletters
)

You could also try QueryPath or PHPQuery or Zend Framework, etc, etc. They're all good.

Also, I would like to congratulate you for being the first person ever on stackoverflow NOT to start off by asking how you can accomplish this with regular expressions. :)