Content not being Posted properly? - php

Question

I am using simpleTest WebBrowser for DataScraping on this URL http://www.magicbricks.com/bricks/agentSearch.html. But though everything seems right I always get the error City Field is required. I guess the problem might be with the fact that values in city field changes dynamically when value of State changes. Any solutions? Here is my code.
<?php
require_once('simpletest/browser.php');
$browser = &new SimpleBrowser();
$browser->addHeader('User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.2');
$browser->get('http://www.magicbricks.com/bricks/agentSearch.html');
$browser->setField('source','agentSearch');
$browser->setField('_transactionType','1');
$browser->setField('_propertyType','1');
$browser->setField('resultPerPage','50');
$browser->setField('agentSearchType','B');
$browser->setField('state','520');
$browser->setField('city','4320');
$browser->setField('keyword','');
$browser->setField('country','50');
print $browser->submitFormById('searchFormBean');
print $browser->getResponseCode()
?>

Answer 1

Here are some errors i noticed
Field Missing
Missing agentSearchType field
Missing transactionType ( There is Both transactionType & _transactionType)
missing propertyType ( There is both propertyType & _propertyType)
There are some header information you need to add such as
Referer
Cookie
A typical post test should come this format if you view the headers
POST http://www.magicbricks.com/bricks/agentSearch.html HTTP/1.1
Host: www.magicbricks.com
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 173
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Origin: http://www.magicbricks.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://www.magicbricks.com/bricks/agentSearch.html
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: JSESSIONID=nF1UqV3DM2tZC42zByYm6Q**.MBAPP09; __utma=163479907.1423216630.1331970312.1331970312.1331970312.1; __utmb=163479907.1.10.1331970312; __utmc=163479907; __utmz=163479907.1331970312.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); _mbRunstats=3k0ilrpcgprh4tea
source=agentSearch&agentSearchType=B&country=51&state=601&city=8417&transactionType=11951&_transactionType=1&propertyType=10001&_propertyType=1&keyword=tesy&resultPerPage=50
I hope this helps
:D