Well here's what I learned from my first little experience with PHP & libcurl .....

base href="http://www.mctreas.org/"

// ACCESS DAYTON PUBLIC RECORDS SITE

$url = "http://www.mctreas.org/Message_IsProcessing.cfm";

$ch = curl_init();  // initialize curl handle

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);

// allow redirects

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

// return into a variable

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);

// times out after 4s

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // set POST method

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,

"streetnbr=1673&streetname=

earlham%20&own1=&parid=&taxyr=2003");

// add post fields



$result = curl_exec($ch); // run the whole process

print_r(curl_getinfo($ch));

echo "\n\ncURL error number:" .curl_errno($ch);

echo "\n\ncURL error:" . curl_error($ch);



curl_close($ch);

print $result;

?>

This little code right here did a basic post to a website and printed out the results from it or really gave me the page that it redirects to. It's the first step along this road and its a very good one. Oh, and to display code in a blog just take out a "<" and replace it with & l t ; Just smush it back together when you do.