Can I communicate with another website with <script>? - html

I am working on a project where it communicates with a sites servers with a couple lines of HTML code, so I need a piece of code that sends a query or just does something with the separate website .
What have I tried? Well I have tried looking online but I didn't really find anything. And the code? I didn't try anything, I have no idea how to do it.
My code:
I said I didn't know how to do it, so there is no code.
Thanks for answering if you answered!
(If there are other programming languages involved, I don't mind)

I think you need to API from website which you want to use in your project.

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obfuscating my html source from snapbuilder.com. is it reliable?

While I was searching a website that helps me to obfuscate my html source.
I found this website.
http://snapbuilder.com/code_snippet_generator/obfuscate_html_source_code/
Do you guys think this website is reliable?
I am now learning about front-end stuff, so I am not sure this helper might have some harmful code.
Thank you
Do not do this, it will simply make your site slow, and if they have Javascript disabled your site will not function at all. Not to mention the fact that as soon as this script is executed they will still be able to see the HTML via the dev tools in any browser.
tl;dr DO NOT DO THIS

How to repeat a menu without using iFrames or PHP in simple HTML/CSS or XML?

sorry for this ultimately newb question. I want to create a menu and not have to repeat the code of the menu on every single web page. I have done this with iframes in the past, but I know they aren't recommended. I have a pretty decent knowledge of HTML & CSS but I feel like I am missing something big here.
I am also not looking for the PHP solution which I believe is represented by:
<?php include("navigation.html"); ?>
Is there a good tutorial I can follow? I've heard this can be done with XML but I haven't been able to find what I am looking for exactly, and don't have any knowledge with it in the past.
In what I think is a related problem, I want to be able to place my google analytics code on just my index page and have it reference the entire website of pages, not just the index. Again, what am I missing here? Do I need to be using a content management system of some sort to pull off this slightly dynamic task? I don't think so...
Thanks for your help and please let me know if I can clarify my question any better!
Why don't you want to use PHP? It can be done with JavaScript (using AJAX), but you need to provide search engines with a way to crawl your site if you go that route.
Using includes in PHP to achieve this is simple and requires extremely little knowledge. Much easier and more efficient than doing it with JS. Also, I don't see how XML would be of any help here unless you read it in with JS (in which you'd have the same issue mentioned above.)
Use server side includes as mentioned already. They are support by pretty much all major webservers so php is not even required.
Check out the following articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html (from apache, note no php needed)
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/include.html
Good Luck
I'm not really sure what options you have other than a .php include. I'm not sure of why you would be avoiding PHP unless the server didn't support it, as it's very simple to do an include (you really don't even need to know PHP to do this except for the include statement).
For your analytics code, you could put this in a .js file and just include it on every page:
<script type="text/javascript" src="analytics.js"></script>
Hope this was at least slightly helpful.
How about javascript? You could write a Javascript file that is included on each page that you wish to display the menu. The javascript could read an XML that contains your menu items and generates HTML to display the menu.
Parse and XML document with JS
http://www.w3schools.com/Xml/xml_parser.asp
jQuery menu solutions
http://speckyboy.com/2010/12/01/15-super-simple-jquery-menu-and-navigation-plugins/

Flash parser for html

As I was working on this project for a friend of mine who is terrified of changing from HTML to flash, I realized that maybe there could be a bridge between them. So I started working on a flash project that would grab the HTML from his page and parse it to display it in flash. Although I am sure there are resources available for this already, I figured that the experts on SO might be willing to suffer through the logic of one user trying to develop this script.
So basically, I am not asking for an answer, I am asking for some step-by-step direction that could be posted so other people could see the logic behind breaking down this project. I think it would be really useful (not just for me, but for anyone wanting to learn more about objects and oop).
So, much like the thread between primarily Senocular and Rampage, this would be a thread where I would be the student asking the questions in a logical step-by-step manner and someone else (or someones else) could provide guidance.
Let me know if you are interested and I can start by posting what I have already written. We can go from there and I am sure it will prove insightful to anyone who reads it. If no one is interested, or no one has the time or inclination, no problem.
Best wishes,
Jase
Who in their right mind would change from html to flash for displaying a simple website? I don't see the logic behind it, it's more like you are trying too hard. Flash has its function in the web, as well as html does. If it's just for simple displaying, using flash is just the wrong way and won't make your website any better but worse because its loading time will be too long.
Goole Search retrieved these:
HTMLWrapper
Groe.org HTMLParser
There is an article about the 1st on *drawlogic. I think the seconds' home is on sourceforge here.
Thing is, browsers already do a fine job at parsing html code. Having the flash player parse html files not only does away with any accessibility advantage your markup can offer but it also feels like reinventing the wheel. If you need to display html content, leave it to the browser.
Slightly offtopic - Flashpaper can convert most HTML pages into swf format.
Given properly "disciplined" HTML, you can use the XML parser in the player for the basic parsing. Are you really talking about writing an HTML renderer in Flash though? Or just being able to pull information from HTML dynamically?

iWebKit/iPhone: Chatbox with MySQL, AJAX, PHP and Javascript

i am busy with a chatbox that contains MySQL, AJAX, PHP and Javascript.
Now i want to have this on my iPod Touch/iPhone, so i am building a website with iWebKit.
The following codes i provided is done now; just asking why it does not display the chatbox itself (so not the senders) after more than 2 lines are entered... What codes should i add or remove... Thanks.
I guess something with CSS or so, but i am not sure where i should apply it and what... Or maybe something else?
Download .zip here with all files
Your zip file is all php. I for one won't run someone else's php code on any of my servers. It would be much safer if you gave us a link to the problem page on your server.
Also, you have included the compressed CSS and not included the necessary Javascript file, so anyone wanting to help you would be facing a serious challenge.
Since it might well be an iWebKit issue, try the iWebKit forum. They are very helpful there.

Scraping hidden HTML (when visible = false) using Hpricot (Ruby on Rails)

I've come across an issue which unfortunately I can't seem to surpass, I'm also just a newborn to Ruby on rails unfortunately hence the number of questions
I am attempting to scrape a webpage such as the following:
http://www.yellowpages.com.mt/Malta/Grocers-Mini-Markets-Retail-In-Malta-Gozo.aspx
I would like to scrape The Addresses, Phones and URL of the next Page which in this case is
http://www.yellowpages.com.mt/Malta/Grocers-Mini-Markets-Retail-In-Malta-Gozo+Ismol.aspx
I've been trying just about anything i could think of but nothing seems to work due to them being set to invisible or so.
The Address is within an h3 tag but it does not appear to be scrap-able. I've been also looking into ScRUBYt from the following url http://www.rubyrailways.com/ajax-scraping-with-scrubyt-linkedin-google-analytics-yahoo-suggestions/, but i really cant seem to find heads or tails of how to apply them in this case.
I would really appreciate any pointers as this is an obstacle which i really need to surpass in order to move forward on my assignment. Thanks in advance for any help.
In the particular example you have given, the elements are not hidden, but loaded via ajax after the page load. So basically what you need is a http client which can run javascript (web browser?) to see those address and other contents.
If you want to really automate the process and scrape the data which is got through ajax or javascript, you can try selenium. Even though it is not developed for that purpose, it serves your needs.
I don't have an answer to your specific question, but I thought I'd point to Ryan Bates' Railscast episode on screen scraping with ruby: http://railscasts.com/episodes/173-screen-scraping-with-scrapi
He uses a library called scrAPI instead of ScRUBYt, since he couldn't get ScRUBYt working. scrAPI seems to be a bit easier maybe?
I hope this helps somewhat, good luck with your assignment! :)
-John
There is a good script posted at the google group. It seems to extract address, etc. You may want to look at the code for the script page.txt.