Well, I almost don't know anything about this language, so I need help!
I need codes/scripts that I can paste to my website, or copy the files on the server... then make that work.
I used to copy random ones but nothing worked.
What exactly I need:
-A chat that appears on the page
-That chat should with with URL parameters, like: www.site.com/message="Hello", so that message appears on the page
-All messages should be saved in a file on server, for example "history.txt", and that history should load by loading the page...
Is that all simple? Possible?
Thanks if anyone get me an answer(s)!
You need to use PHP to do this. If you use the GET method, parameters can be passed through the url, and it's very easy to read and write files. Where are you coding at the moment?
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I have a CGI script written in bash that performs certain actions and calculations on data passed to it from a parent web page. It does not display anything on its own page. When it is complete, I want to launch an ordinary flat HTML web page. How can I do this without user intervention? I know, I could create a submit button or a hyperlink, but I just want the script to finish its work and then link to a URL all by itself.
Muru had an idea that might work, although there may be instances where it might fail or work in an unexpected manner. I found a very simple solution, however:
curl -s "http://web-page-to-display"
I honestly don't know why I did not thnk of it sooner. It's pretty obvious, really.
I'm trying to add some functionality to an internal Access database that will automatically create tasks on Asana.
My VBA experience is somewhat limited but by examining various code samples online and tinkering I've been able to POST tasks with all the necessary data and GET info back.
But I'm now struggling with being able to upload file attachments to a task. I'm not sure how to go about it.
Leaving the content type as application/x-www-form-urlencoded which works for the normal POST statements when creating tasks and just pointing the send command to a file location using doesn't work and results in an error of "file is not an object", I'm guessing this is because all that's contained in the send command is a file=path pair.
Do I need to encode the file at all, if so how?
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks.
You can check out how curl does it, but I believe it needs to be multipart/form-data - I would strongly recommend using a library rather than doing the encoding manually, since there are often subtle gotchas.
Basically, it works a lot like a standard form upload from a web browser.
Hope that helps!
I have a stock trading website that is only accessible after logging into the site. After logging in, there is a stock value that I am trying to extract. That number is not readily available and takes a while to load as it is being updated from the company's database.
I am trying to write a script in Ruby that will allow me to extract the number and then use it in my program.
In firebug, the tag looks like this but only after the number has loaded:
<span id="ContentPlaceHolderTodaysStock">10,747</span>
I have explored libraries such as hpricot and nokogiri and have tried code similar to the following:
require "nokogiri"
require "open-uri"
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("website.com/stocks"))
puts doc.xpath("//span/text()")
The problems I run into are
1)it only reads the html from the login page "website.com" instead of "website.com/stocks"
2)once I do get past the login, how do I use the html code after the javascript has loaded?
I have also tried Watir so that can get me past problem #1 but then doing something like the following doesn't help with problem#2 because it provides the original html source...
require 'net/http'
source = Net::HTTP.get("website.com/stocks", '/')
Any help in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Since you are able to login using Watir, you may as well use it to get the text off of the page. Watir has built-in methods for waiting for asynchronous components to load - see http://watirwebdriver.com/waiting/.
To get the text, you will want something like:
puts browser.span(:id => 'element_id').when_present.text
If it's being loaded after-the-fact, it can't be seen by Nokogiri. You'll need to use something like Watir.
once I do get past the login, how do I use the html code after the javascript has loaded?
You can't get there with Nokogiri. The added HTML doesn't exist in Nokogiri's world, since it's given the base HTML via OpenURI. Nokogiri doesn't execute JavaScript.
Watir, on the other hand, can do all that, so it's your only choice. You'll have to figure out how to navigate through the login-page, request the stock page, then loop, waiting until the text appears, then grab it and do whatever you want with it.
I am using this site template to create a mobile/iPhone friendly site. I want to have it link to files, and below the link I want it to show the creation date. Currently everything is working fine but everytime I upload the file I also have to go into the index.html and change the modification date. Is there any type of script to do this for me that will work on my site? I have very basic HTML understanding, hence why I am using a template.
Thanks!
you're going to need some server-side scripting like PHP or ASP.NET. Using that, there are built-in File IO libraries where you can get the creation/modified date.
There are 2 ways to show file's last modification date (and only one of them works for creation).
You can have a file list generated by the file-listing capability of your web server. Basically, any URL mapping to a directory that is permitted to show its contents will result in a web page listing the directory contents, like this:
Index of /images/appimages/MastheadButtons
Name Last modified Size Description
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Parent Directory 22-Jun-2010 09:35 -
GP.JPG [link] 22-Jun-2010 09:41 1k
web.jpg [link] 29-Jan-2003 15:28 17k
You can have a back-end (CGI) script which produces the HTML page print any info you wish.
If you only know HTML, the second approach would not be practical for you. If you know some programming language in which to write web apps (PHP, Perl, anything), you can ask a more targeted qyestion of how to achieve what you want in that language.
However, HTML by itself is running on your browser. It doesn't execute any code on the web server where the file lives and thus doesn't know anything about the files.
Found the solution: I changed the file extension to .php from the iPhone Website template and then inserted this code where I want the modification date to be:
<?= date("m/d/Y H:i:s",filemtime("filename.extension")) ?>
Title: Rotate Homepage Image (for website)- No longer works.
I am a physicist/wildlife artist with a website (I created in 2002) to display & market my artwork. I have set it up with an underlying (homepage) image map - having links to: "tigers", "leopards", "birds", artist info, etc., with the overlying image changing (swapping out) every time the user navigates to/from homepage. The links for each homepage have the same numerical coordinates and do not change locations from page to page, just the image changes. You can see my blank-page site at www.querryart.com. Note links below DO work.
The website was fabulous until last year. At that time my former webhost went out of business, and I changed to Jumpline.com. Since then, the commands which call canned subroutines do not work.
The routine which swaps out the image is named pid.cgi (stored in the cgi-bin).
Another one-line page-counter cgi routine I used at the end of each page called a canned program "count.cgi" which counted visitors to that page, incremented "hits" per page, and stored them in a table displayed only to me. This was a way I could determine the popularity of various images. This cgi routine also does not now work - giving me an error message on each page.
Anyway, I am lost without these routines (particularly the first one to swap out images). Is it progress that my Cadillac website has turned into an empty wagon? Hope someone can help. I'm not a programmer.
My first guess is that you may need to change the line(s) at the top of your CGI file in order for the server to process them. For example, if using Perl, #!/usr/bin/perl is a common directory, and so is #!/usr/local/bin/perl.
Oh, and have you set the permissions to 755?
For starters: http://www.querryart.com/cgi-bin/pid.cgi does not exist. You might want to make sure the file is uploaded to the correct place.
Make sure that your host supports CGI scripts.
Make sure, your CGI scripts are uploaded at the correct location according to the info from your host regarding the installation of CGI scripts.
Make sure the scripts are executable (chmod 755)
Make sure, that the scripts are calling the correct interpreter (as pointed out by Steve).
From a quick check at your web site, it looks like the scripts are not in the right place because the webserver gives a 404 - not found. when I try to get /cgi-bin/pid.cgi
Furthermore, the fact that the script takes an absolute path as a parameter (cfile=/home/querryar/httpdocs/cgi-bin/dicont.cnf) looks like a glaring security problem allowing access to any files in your account. You should really consider a different solution