Flood Data in PHP form

Question

I want to flood some random data in a PHP form. Can I do it?

I want to actually test my website and database ofcourse. All I want to know that is it capable of handling if multiple registration is done at same time.

Answer 1

cURL is a very good tool to fill up a (POST) form a submit it. You may find a cURL library implementation in PHP, so you can use a "familiar" language to get random data, but you can also use the command line version.

Answer 2

First, create pages that echo data from source.

data1.php
data2.php
data3.php
data4.php

Second create a php page that will do the following:

1. Create variables from data sources.
2. Pass variables into array.
3. Randomly select a specific variable.

4. Echo results into page.

   // variables from data
   $var1 = file_get_contents('data1.php');
   $var2 = file_get_contents('data2.php');
   $var3 = file_get_contents('data3.php');
   $var4 = file_get_contents('data4.php');

   // pass variables into array
   $data = array($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4,);

   $dkey = array_rand($data); // random selection
   echo 'Data: '.$data[$dkey]; // echo selection

Your finished code will look like this:

<?php
$var1 = file_get_contents('data1.php');  
$var2 = file_get_contents('data2.php');   
$var3 = file_get_contents('data3.php');   
$var4 = file_get_contents('data4.php');   

$arr = array($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4,);  

$key = array_rand($arr);    
echo 'Data: '.$arr[$key];   
?>