Automating a process on a PHP website

[DarwinIT]

We have a vendor who hosts a PHP website that we need to extract data from. They don't have an API for that purpose. I was hoping to somehow provide keystrokes/click to their application from an asp.net application - semi screen scraper type of thing. I just need to logon to their app and request a URL for a file download. I also need to do an upload if possible. Is this doable or are we stuck with a manual process?

 

[jmeckley]

it doesn't matter what the remote server language is if you are accessing it through http. from your system POV it's just a text stream.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

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[DarwinIT]

HtmlDocument oDoc = webBrowser1.Document.Window.Frames[1].Document ;

HtmlElement myLogon = (HtmlElement)oDoc.GetElementById("password");
myLogon.InnerText = "xxx";

oDoc.InvokeScript("submitLogin()");


Here's what I came up with. I don't find the element with the getElementByID call. I have the correct frame.

Here is part of the source for the frame.

<table align="center" border="0" width="230">
<tr>
<td>
<table align="center">
<tr>
<td style="width: 60px;">
<b>Username</b>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" class="text_field" id="username" name="username" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 60px;">
<b>Password</b>
</td>
<td>
<input type="password" class="text_field" id="password" name="password" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>


I am throwing a COM error on the ActiveElement property. Could that be the issue?