All, I'm helping a buddy write a program and could use a few pointers. :) I know this is a bit 'off-topic,' but hopefully someone can shed some light on how to go about doing this.
First some background information: there's a web tool which keeps track of a 'to do' list. The to-do list has a database backend that a user can interact with by using a set of very mature web tools already in production. One of the fields in each 'to-do list item' is 'last updated'. Each to-do list item is tracked by a number. The goal is to write a program that will the 'last updated' field in the to-do list. A user can edit the 'to-do item' by accessing a web interface (where you can change status, priority, etc. of the to-do list item): http://site/todoUpdate.do?item=225532 There's a form field in this web tool interface where the 'last updated' field (a *date* field) can be manually modified by a user. Thus, when a user makes a modification to the item, the date field for 'last updated' has to be manually changed. A user can also see an overview of all to-do items by going to a URL similar to the following: http://site/todoList.do?user=testUser I want to write a program that will update the 'last updated' field on *every* item. This will require some sort of 'post' to the web server and interaction with the existing web tools and its back-end. I can probably whip up a program (using the advice Kent gave yesterday in a thread on this mailing list :)) to gather the entire list of items that needs to be modified (all the to-do list item numbers, that is). I'm not sure, however, how to mimic manually updating the last-updated field. Any thoughts? - james _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
