Hi Folks,

I've only been introduced to PHP for a week though it being very similar to Perl I managed to pick up the basics. However, I want to know if there is a way to get data provided on a web page (i.e. text fields) using PHP and manipulate that data.

Thanks!

you need to be more spesific...

What exactly do you need??

You can have ALL input data in a POST/GET arrays after the action, but if you need the daya while it happaning you will need to go to JS... PHP like Perl is a server side script..


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there are the functions

file_get_contents()
get_headers()


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Use can use POST method to get the values.


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You can also use regular expressions to mine for certain patterns. See manual for preg_match and www.regular-expressions.info

You would assign a id to each text field :

<input type="text" id="user />

then use

<?php

$user = $_POST['user']

?>


Hope that helped

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It appears that this will not work with Excel's built in web query...? I couldn't get it to work. A more elegant solution would be to enumerate through the table rows and table cells using MS's DOM. However, I have found it more flexible to parse the data myself because websites are getting wiser to scraping and vary the tables order, names' ect. This will throw your DOM code off immediately. By searching for a specific string or strings instead of an object relative to position in an HTML doc, you gain more responsive flexibility in my opinion. Here is a very basic example of a single query which will place the locations and speeds in columns a and b.