Parameters needed for talking to an HTML web form - html

Please view the page linked below to understand the question.
http://forecast.weather.gov/zipcity.php
How would I go about finding the name of that city/state/zip text input field?
I need to allow a user to enter the city, state or zip into my own text field and then submit that to the above website's form but I don't know how to specify that specific field.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=City&state=ST(ate)
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Tucson&state=AZ

I recommend you download firebug for firefox - it makes analyzing web pages vastly easier. Until then, you'll just have to look through the page source by hand.
But yes, the name of the field is 'inputstring'

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How to extract data and generate URL from it?

I'm new to stackoverflow (Hello World!). I have some basic understanding of JS, C++, HTML, and CSS and I have been looking in this and other forums but I am having problems figuring out this one, mostly because I don't know what this would be called (TLDR at the bottom):
Essentially, I would like build a chrome extension that extracts data from a website (in this case, copart - a website where people sell cars) and create a link from it that opens another window to one of three car evaluators (edmunds, kbb, nada). I fix cars as a hobby but it's a pain to have to input vehicle info over and over so I wanted to automatize the process as much as possible. Hopefully this will help others as well.
E.g. a generic link to edmunds is: https://www.edmunds.com/ford/escape/2018/appraisal-value/?vin=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX. I would like to know how to extract the make, model, year and VIN, in this case, from copart (Example copart page). On Kbb, e.g., all I see that can automatized is inputting the vin into the window and clicking "Go". Is there a way to have the plugin automatically select "VIN" and copy the VIN into the field while clicking the "Go" button?
Kbb
I know, a lot of questions. I'm also not quite sure what this would be called? A crawler? A scraper? A craper? :)
Either way, here the basic (TLDR) question:
How to create a chrome plugin that extracts data from one website, opens a URL using that data, and which then performs an action like switching a label, populating a textbox, and clicking a button on that URL?
I have only posed this question here so if there's a better place to put it, please let me know.
Mark
Extracting data from one website and searching more for scraped data in other website
1. For this project you can use combination of selenium and scrapy
2. Since both are dynamic page powered by javascript do need to check on security constraints
3. Can make use of spider under scrapy each spider with support of selenium
4. there is need of pressing Go button that can be achieved using selenium

QListView custom display

I have a QListView with a Custom Display based on a simple contacts list. All the fields EXCEPT the email address field render just fine, and the items on the page otherwise look exactly as formatted. There is definitely data in the field, but this one simple text field isn't rendering as a mailto link in the QListView. The href code is correct, it works when tested in a simple html file, but not on the Sharepoint page.
Viewing source, all I see for the email code is literally mailto:<%EmailAddress%> where it should show mailto:myname#mydomain.com as it appears on the list. What's REALLY strange is that I tested the <%EmailAddress%> token on the custom display as just another field, no href code, but it doesn't show on screen that way either, which is even odder.
Here's the current code as an email link:
<%First_Name%> <%Last_Name%> Ext. <%Extension%><br>
<%Job_Title%><br><br>
Is there something funky about using an email field/code in Custom Displays? Using the generic show fields tab, it shows up uneventfully. Something else? Or can you not use "live" tags in the display at all? But then why didn't it show up as a text field? I was under the impression that you could use pretty much any simple html code in the custom displays. No?
I figgered it out. Turns out the field names are <%CaSe Sensitive%>. Who knew? Works like a champ now. Is that documented anywhere, btw? Just wondering.

Inserting or copy/pasting picture to a textbox

I have a file with a textarea (named "Resolution support") in which you can explain how to solve a problem. My problem is that a user would be able to add a picture for a better explaining. If he copy/paste or he has to click and drag or anything i don't care, he HAS TO be able to put a picture into the textarea.
I wondered if another textbox that can do this would exist and what Type does the textbox has to be in PhpMyAdmin.
My textarea :
<textarea name="Escalade" class="longInput" cols="80%" rows="19" wrap="hard">
</textarea>
Without some kind of JavaScript WYSIWYG library this is not possible as vanilla textarea only takes text (clue is in the name).
I assume that you are viewing the submissions in phpMyAdmin which is an interface onto a MySQL database. It is good for developing stuff but not so great as an admin user interface long term. What you are asking about are called transformations.
Here are some tutorials on storing images in a database:
http://www.hockinson.com/programmer-web-designer-denver-co-usa.php?s=47
http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=48068
How to store file name in database, with other info while uploading image to server using PHP?
Here are some lists of WYSIWYG editors:
http://www.sitepoint.com/html5-wysiwyg/
https://github.com/cheeaun/mooeditable/wiki/Javascript-WYSIWYG-editors
Those phpMyAdmin transformations:
http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/transformations.html
That is about as much help as can be offered to you without seeing the PHP code behind the form at the very least. Hope this helps.
If someone is looking for an answer, I had asked my profesor and he answered that what I was looking for is a "Rich Text Editor". I'm using ckeditor with the plugin prgfilemanager. It allows me to insert pictures but I cannot copy/paste them which is pretty annoying...
You can try it here http://ckeditor.com/demo I hope it will help you if you have the same problem that I had :)
While it is true that you cannot use a textarea, the answer is very simple. You can use a content editable div, grab the contents as html and write it to a databae using AJAX and PHP.
Just name a div like this:
<div class="my_article" contenteditable></div>
and pass the contents on the click of a button into a JS variable and then pass that into PHP using AJAX.
var content1 = $('.my_article').html();
If anyone needs further help please comment and I'll be happy to obligue.

URLENCODE Variable in Salesforce Vertical Response Email

This is a rather simple question, but I cannot find documentation about it from Salesforce.
I am setting up an HTML Newsletter from Salesforce Vertical Response, and I need to put a link in the body of the email that goes to another site which takes the user's email address as a query string. I am doing this so that when the user clicks the link from the HTML email, they will automatically be signed up for a different blog mailing list.
The link will look like this www.mywebsite.com/blog/subscribe?email=your_email#email.com.
I can easily accomplish this by using the {EMAIL_ADDRESS} variable, such that the link looks like this:
Subsribe
This workds, but when the user gets the email and clicks the link, the '#' symbol gets stripped from the URL. Now I'm trying to figure out how to get around this. I saw some documentation on the URLENCODE() function for SalesForce, but when I try to use it in the HTML email editor in SalesForce, like URLENCODE({EMAIL_ADDRESS})it doesn't execute it, and instead interprets it literally as text. Can anyone help me? is it even possible to use functions from within the SalesForce HTML email editor?
Thanks
I havent used VerticalResponse, but if it leans on salesforce communication templates then you can always create an email template as Visualforce page. Then you can apply Encode functions to merge fields.
I'm glad you were able to find a workaround. If you ever go back to dealing with the URL, it's a good idea to disable our click-tracking when working with merge fields. This can be accomplished by adding nr_ before the http. Example: Subsribe - If you ever try that and it doesn't work, or if you have any other questions, please let us know via one of our Support channels:
support#verticalresponse.com
866-683-7842 x1
We also have live chat available: http://help.verticalresponse.com/
Regards,
Keith Gluck
VerticalResponse Customer Support

How can I send information from one html page to another?

I want to create an html page which contains a text box. When I am given input and the Enter key is pressed, I want it to go to another html page and display the typed keyword.
How can I do this?
I think you need to use a server-side scripting language to facilitate the manipulation of the inputted data on the form, so that it gets "saved" and displayed in the other html page. I suggest you try reading about PHP, and then turn to handling information in Web Forms...just a thought!
You can use Javascript for that. Check this Tutorial : How do I pass variables between two pages? (GET method)