使用curl将数据发布到php页面

Question

There is a site http://www.kovansports.com/bookonline/ , and I think the page is an index.php because when I typed that filename in I do not get a 404.

In that page, there is a label 'Schedule For', where you can choose a date and press Go. The form action references back to the same page ( http://www.kovansports.com/bookonline/ ), and presents the table associated with the new date chosen.

I am testing a PHP page to post a date to the site above, so that I get the table for the date I want, for scraping information.

The code that I used is below, and it is not working somehow, as I am faced with a 404 error. First time doing this, so please let me know what I am doing wrong and the best way to achieve my objective. Thanks!

<?php
$urltopost = "http://www.kovansports.com/bookonline/index.php";
$datatopost = "date=07-Aug-13&loadschedule=1";

$ch = curl_init ($urltopost);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $datatopost);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false);
$returndata = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
print $returndata; //display the reuslt
?>

Answer 1

$urltopost = "http://www.kovansports.com/bookonline/";

Works fine without the index.php. They're probably using a .htaccess file to rewrite the URL.