On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:03:25 -0400, Charles K. Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

: I'm trying to scrape the data behind the form at
: http://www.theblackchurch.com/modules.php?name=Locator  As a true
: beginner with Perl (I know some php), I'm working from training
:  scripts that scrape from another site.  There are four scripts of
: increasing complexity, but on the simplest I get error message "Can't
: call method "value" on an undefined value"  From reading, this looks
: like a cookie problem.

    Actually, it looks like a missing form problem.

use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new();

$browser->get( $starting_url );

die "No forms at $starting_url.\n" unless @{ $browser->forms() };

__END__

HTH,

Charles K. Clarkson


I don't follow - when I add the suggested line I do get No forms at (the url). But there is a form on the page cited in the script.


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