How can cURL be used to simulate clicking on a button on a webpage in PHP?

To simulate clicking on a button on a webpage using cURL in PHP, you can send a POST request to the URL of the button's action with the necessary form data. This will mimic the behavior of clicking on the button and submitting the form. 

<?php
$url = 'http://example.com/submit_form.php';
$data = array(
    'button_name' => 'button_value',
    'other_form_data' => 'value'
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if($response === false){
    echo 'cURL error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);
?>

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cURL simulate clicking button webpage PHP

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