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Thanks Ray,<br />
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That was all very helpful and sounds like I am overachieving what I really need to do. I don't have that much time do this project. :)<br />
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Thanks again.
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Thanks Ray,

That was all very helpful and sounds like I am overachieving what I really need to do. I don't have that much time do this project. :)

Thanks again.

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Thanks for the points. &nbsp;If only they had an API or a URL you could populate with the request data. &nbsp;:-(<br />
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Best of luck with it, ~Ray
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Thanks for the points.  If only they had an API or a URL you could populate with the request data.  :-(

Best of luck with it, ~Ray

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I am working on a project for school and I need to access and change the value of a dropdown menu on a remote page before I get the file contents of the page with PHP. I need to do this to a remote page on another domain. <br />
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The page I am trying to get this from is: <a href="http://cad.chp.ca.gov/" rel="ugc">http://cad.chp.ca.gov/</a> This dropdown is the one to the far left that when clicked shows a list of citys. Also see attached.<br />
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In the end what I will do is I will scrap the information from the table for each city region, and insert them into a mySQL database to maniplulate the data later. <br />
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Thanks in advanced.<br />
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Circled is the dropdown I need to change.

dropdownpic.JPG

I am working on a project for school and I need to access and change the value of a dropdown menu on a remote page before I get the file contents of the page with PHP. I need to do this to a remote page on another domain. 

The page I am trying to get this from is: http://cad.chp.ca.gov/ (http://cad.chp.ca.gov/) This dropdown is the one to the far left that when clicked shows a list of citys. Also see attached.

In the end what I will do is I will scrap the information from the table for each city region, and insert them into a mySQL database to maniplulate the data later. 

Thanks in advanced.

Manipulate Remote Dropdown

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