Tony,
After logging in (saving the cookies), following your instructions
and the manual, I used the following commands:
wget --load-cookies cookies.txt --post-data 'country=US'
http://www.xxx.yyy/search/full_search.php
The data was not filtered using county=US, but rather all of the
data without that filter (from all countries) came back. Also, this data was
in a .php file.
Do you know what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Lewis
To: 'Alan Thomas' ; wget@sunsite.dk
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:59 PM
Subject: RE: php form
The table stuff just affects what's shown on the user's screen. It's the
input field that affects what goes to the server; in this case, that's <input
... name="country" ...> so you want to post country=US. If there were multiple
fields, you would separate them with ampersands such as country=US&state=CA.
Tony
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From: Alan Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 5:27 PM
To: Tony Lewis; wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: php form
Tony,
Thanks. I have to log in with username/password, and I think I
know how to do that with wget using POST. For the actual search page, the HTML
source says it`s:
<form action="full_search.php" method="POST">
However, I`m not clear on how to convey the data for the search.
The search for has defined a table. One of the entries, for example, is:
<tr>
<td><b><font face="Arial">Search by Country:</font></b></td>
<td><input type="text" name="country" size="50" maxlength="100"></td>
</tr>
If I want to use wget to search for entries in the U.S. ("US"), then how do
I convey this when I post to the php?
Thanks, Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Lewis
To: 'Alan Thomas' ; wget@sunsite.dk
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:53 AM
Subject: RE: php form
Look for <form action="some-web-page" method="XXX" ...>
action tells you where the form fields are sent.
method tells you if the server is expecting the data to be sent using a
GET or POST command; GET is the default. In the case of GET, the arguments go
into the URL. If method is POST, follow the instructions in the manual.
Hope that helps.
Tony
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From: Alan Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 4:39 PM
To: wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: php form
There is a database on a web server (to which I have access) that
is accessible via username/password. The only way for users to access the
database is to use a form with search criteria and then press a button that
starts a php script that produces a web page with the results of the search.
I have a couple of questions:
1. Is there any easy way to know exactly what commands are behind the
button, to duplicate them?
2. If so, then do I just use the POST command as described in the
manual, after logging in (per the manual), to get the data it provides.
I have used wget just a little, but I am completely new to php.
Thanks, Alan
