Hi,

I want to build a cURL script that auto searches a keyword on any site's search feature.
In this example, imagine I want it to search ebay.com.
How should I code it ?
What is the code that:

1. Types a keyword in the search box;
2. Clicks the search button.

I need the appropriate function names to research on them.

I am stuck at this point:

$keywords = blah blah;
$url = "http://www.ebay.com";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 5);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

So, with my cURL, I have managed to load ebay.com homepage.

Now, I need to tell the cURL to:

A). Find the item (search box) that has the following name attribute or id attribute and type the $keywords value onto it.

name="_nkw";
id="gh-ac";

B). Find the item (search button) that has the following name attribute or id attribute attribute and click it.

id="gh-btn";
value="Search";

I would appreciate any code snippet additions to it by anyone.

Thank you very much for your help.