Working options without API's in PHP
<p>There is a site that does not have a standalone search or API product available at this time, and I need a PHP page which can get information another way. This site has a manual search function to pull data, is there a way for my page to go to the site, click on the search parameters that I need and pull the results into my page? Maybe there's a better way?</p>

<p>Example.</p>

<p>realestate.com.au, I want a user to enter the same search fields in my php file, go to realestate.com.au, plug in those search parameters in that site, then as the results of my search come through, eg, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms in the Suburb of Marylands, I get the price of all the results and in my page calculate the median price, and that field gets outputted to the user on my screen.</p>

<p>Now I have no code for this as I don't even know how to start. I cant do most of it if I can find out a way to start by having php go to realestate.com.au (not redirecting the user there, just hooking into the website) and doing the search.</p>

<p>I hope I make sense.
Regards</p>
