Re: [PHP] Curl with asp pages....

2008-11-28 Thread ioannes
Andrew Ballard wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:59 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The one thing that's always tripped me up with ASP sites is that you have to add EVERY input, even the type="submit" with the correct value from the one and only submit button on the page. Again, I thi

[PHP] Curl with asp pages....

2008-11-27 Thread ioannes
What are the differences between asp and non-asp pages when you are curling them? Apart from ,as referred to in php.net, you need to urlencode the post values... Do you also need to urlencode the variable names? And if the submit button on the page has javascript:WebForm_PostBackOptions, is

Re: [PHP] Re: Variable name as a string

2008-08-28 Thread ioannes
may not be the result of a simple select query. So I suppose the solution there is to have a hidden field with all the IDs as a string, explode that and then iterate through that. Eg $IDs=explode("_",$_POST['all_IDs']); and that gives me the table IDs to do update querie

Re: [PHP] Re: Variable name as a string

2008-08-27 Thread ioannes
Actually, you are right, as you just put the checkbox index in the POST and get the value from there. So you just need the number of checkboxes...sorry. ioannes wrote: Yes, Tedd, this does however incur the overhead of find out what i is, because it could be a range of IDs from the database

Re: [PHP] Re: Variable name as a string

2008-08-27 Thread ioannes
Yes, Tedd, this does however incur the overhead of find out what i is, because it could be a range of IDs from the database, not necessarily a count of the checkboxes on the page: " for ($i = 1; $i <= 4; $i++) { $a = 'a' . $i; $b = 'whatever' . $i; if($_POST[$a] == 'on') {

[PHP] Variable name as a string

2008-08-27 Thread ioannes
Could someone tell me how to get the name of a variable as a string. This would be useful in form submission with multiple check-boxes to match against database records. At the moment I use ${"var".$ID[$x]} or someting like that to go through all the possible matches, but it would be quicker

Re: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes

2008-08-24 Thread ioannes
George Bernard Shaw, an Irishman. tedd wrote: At 11:13 PM +0100 8/22/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Not to mention, but of the two major English speaking countries, both America and England have different address standards. All too often an American site seems to think that a postcode is the sam

[PHP] preg_match_all nested html text

2008-08-20 Thread ioannes
I am trying to get the text between nested html tags within arrays produced by preg_match_all. The simple situation would be: test I want to return 'test'. Assuming $post_results has some string derived from a html page source with lots of nested tags. Replacing new line (seems to be a goo

[PHP] Referencing files in cron jobs versus format when running from URL

2008-08-02 Thread ioannes
I have a file that works from the URL like: www.mysite.com/cronjob.php and this file includes references to uploaded files like this: /home/mysite/public_html/dir/subdir/filename.xml and this is used in functions like filemtime(). The uploaded files are found on the server using the above pa

Re: [PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

2008-07-10 Thread ioannes
I would like someone to help me on this outside the group discussion. Is there anyone out there that would look at a curl problem with me? Thanks, John ioannes wrote: My current theory on this is that the initial input page creates a per-session cookie. Is CURL able to send this when the

Re: [PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

2008-07-08 Thread ioannes
indow: www.mysite.com/displaymode=). John ioannes wrote: My current theory on this is that the initial input page creates a per-session cookie. Is CURL able to send this when the page is submitted and if so how do I find out the name and value of the cookie as per my reading it is not stored on

Re: [PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

2008-07-08 Thread ioannes
ut these? John ioannes wrote: My code is as below. It comes back with 'Bad session variable name - CompanySerialNo' from the site.but the COOKIEJAR does not show this variable name and it is not sent, it just shows: www.targetsite.comFALSE/FALSE0 AS

Re: [PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

2008-07-07 Thread ioannes
My code is as below. It comes back with 'Bad session variable name - CompanySerialNo' from the site.but the COOKIEJAR does not show this variable name and it is not sent, it just shows: www.targetsite.comFALSE/FALSE0 ASPSESSIONIDQCSQDTABLKAONANAFJPNMFFECLFNCLBP There

Re: [PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

2008-07-02 Thread ioannes
Thanks Chris and Andrew, An interesting article here on VIEWSTATE in asp: http://www.dotnetjohn.com/articles.aspx?articleid=71 refers to MAC encoding using SHA1 or MD5, alternatively Triple DES symmetric algorithm. However, in either event, VIEWSTATE seems to be just what is sent by the serv

Re: [PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

2008-07-01 Thread ioannes
the __VIEWSTATE the results page will not return. So I am just wondering, as I have not been able to repeat this using curl, what the is included in that string. There's a challenge for anyone with whatever resources it takes. John ioannes wrote: For those that lik

[PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

2008-06-29 Thread ioannes
For those that like CURL and calendars. Using CURL, I am accessing a form on a 'target' third party site (it is built around JavaScript DHTML DatePicker) and trying to POST various date and other inputs from its form and return the results page to my site for further processing with php. Howe