Got a project , but am lost on how to do it 
<p>Thanks to a well made personal php project, I got an offer to do a paid php project on a freelancer site. Trouble is I am lost on how to proceed :( .
Could someone guide one what is to be done here? would really really appreciate it.</p>

<p>My understanding of the project : </p>

<p>Step1 . It involves making a tool that 'goes' to a webpage(with a userid of a browser) > sets a a cookie(plaintext) > sends the cookie to the server > goes to a final page(this page requires that  plaintext cookie) . </p>

<p>step2: The final page has a search form . The use of my tool would be to enter search terms in this form and extract and parse the resultant html data into a mysql database .  </p>

<p>Questions: </p>

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<li><p>can this be done using php ? if so what am I looking at here. I know how to do php programming from the point of view of the server , (setcookie,getcookie , send html pages) , but here I would be the client.</p></li>
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any other suggestions please</p></li>
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<p>Thanks</p>
