Moving data from one web page to another

Trusler · none Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 30

Hey folks! This is non-IRC related, but wondering if anyone knows...

I am looking for something that will allow me to take text from web page A and paste it into web page B. Basically cut and pasting between pages, but where I can pre-select the information I want pulled from page A and where in page B (page B is a form) each piece of information is dumped into.

Is there any kind of application that does that, or can it be coded? Pages A and B are completely unrelated.

Jonathan

Terry · none Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 28

I suggest using php if you have support for it if you are wanting people to put info in page a in a form and call it on the next page then this is what I use
page a =

<FORM ACTION="chat2.php" METHOD="POST">
<p>Your nick: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="chatnick" value="Guest" size="10"><br>
<p>Your Pass: <INPUT TYPE="PASSWORD" NAME="chatpass" value="" size="10"><br><br>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Chat!">
<input type="RESET" VALUE="Reset"></P>
</FORM>

that is a form that they put the info in and in page b this is how you call the info

<?=$_POST['chatnick']?> put that where u want to show what they put in page a on page b for the first form field and for the second
<?=$_POST['chatpass']?>

this is how I created the login for my website chat wich is currently down
I suggest using mysql with php if you are wanting to save everything that they submit good luck........ if this is not what you are wanting be more specific and maybe someone will code it for you

be sure that you have php support on your server and name the file something.php not something.html or whatever it is that u use

Trusler · none Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 30

Hey Terry,

The issue is I have no control over page A. Basically its like saying I want to be able to take this web page we are looking at right now, and have a program or code in another totally seperate web page be able to pull stuff out of it that I tell it to, and then dump it into a place I tell it to on another page.

ed · Posted: Oct 28, 2003 4:01pm Post subject:

If Page A was a XML-based page, it could be done easily - but just a generic HTML page would be harder to do. I guess you could come up with some sort of PHP script that would filter out all of the HTML markup, and then pull from that.

Maybe there is an easier way, and I'm just not seeing it Wink

FSZ · Guest

couldnt u just do save as and then maybe edit in an html/php editor like Dreamweaver

Guest · Posted: Oct 29, 2003 1:14pm Post subject:

you may want to write the webmaster of that said page and let them know what you are wanting to do most likely for a link back they will let you rip some content and or help you doit

or make you a small spider that will download that page every few hours or something and then use your "editor" to take what you want

but isnt this content theft ???? :?:

ed · Posted: Oct 29, 2003 6:23pm Post subject:

Jason · Posted: Oct 29, 2003 7:30pm Post subject:

but, SearchIRC allows external sites to get stats for networks, channels, and even searches. Look around the SearchIRC updates section :)

Guest · Posted: Oct 29, 2003 8:22pm Post subject:

SearchIRC RULES!! :wink: