One thing I’ve spent a lot of time over is breaking up post variables for use in CURL and posting to forms. Sure you have the option of using an array or just replacing a few variables in a string with CURL but sometimes forms can get crazy with the amount of unique variables they have. Missing a simple unique variable or spelling it wrong can result in hours of wasted time trying to figure out why something won’t work. So I created this lil snippet of code to basically help break down a post string into a nice postData array for use in CURL.

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function formInfo($text){
	$forms = split("&", $text);
 
	foreach($forms as &$form){
 
		$values = split("=", $form);
 
		$check = urldecode($values[1]);
 
		echo '$postData[\'' . urldecode($values[0]) . '\']' . " = '$check';\n";
	}
 
}

So for a random example use, I did it on wordpress’s login system.

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$text = "log=exosus&pwd=sexytime&rememberme=forever&testcookie=1&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.com%2F&submit=Login";
 
formInfo($text);

which produces the result:

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$postData['log'] = 'exosus';
$postData['pwd'] = 'sexytime';
$postData['rememberme'] = 'forever';
$postData['testcookie'] = '1';
$postData['redirect_to'] = 'http://wordpress.com/';
$postData['submit'] = 'Login';