Internet Data entry programs

Internet Data entry programs

I run a web site and want to write a program to help me update it. I would
appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction as far as this is
concerned.

The main thing here is that I don't know how a vb program can send it's
output to a web page instead of a page that is internal to itself. Your
feedback on this idea would be much appreciated.

I would want the program to go to the web, find a certain web site, log in
with my unpw, go to the correct page of the site, enter data in the blanks
of that page (max 30 entries), submit those entries, gather the info the web
site returned, use that info to update my web page, then do that over and
over until all the items of my web site have been checked.

If this program can only do part of that, then it would need to be the data
entry part, cause that is what takes the largest amount of my time and
effort manually.


Thanks
Robert

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date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:05:47 GMT author: ROBERT VERNON

Re: Internet Data entry programs

"ROBERT VERNON"  wrote in message 
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>I run a web site and want to write a program to help me update it. I would
> appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction as far as this is
> concerned.
>
> The main thing here is that I don't know how a vb program can send it's
> output to a web page instead of a page that is internal to itself. Your
> feedback on this idea would be much appreciated.
>
> I would want the program to go to the web, find a certain web site, log in
> with my unpw, go to the correct page of the site, enter data in the blanks
> of that page (max 30 entries), submit those entries, gather the info the 
> web
> site returned, use that info to update my web page, then do that over and
> over until all the items of my web site have been checked.
>
> If this program can only do part of that, then it would need to be the 
> data
> entry part, cause that is what takes the largest amount of my time and
> effort manually.
>
>
> Thanks
> Robert
>
> -- 
>
>
>
> For great deals on great gifts checkout
>        www.realprettystuff.com
>
>
I don't think this is a good way to things, it's an ideal scenario for a web 
service on your site which accepts the data.

The way fowrad with your current situation is to either use automation of 
IE, search for internetexplorer.application in the scripting newsgroups 
(microsoft.public.scripting.* in google.groups) or to use the 
msxml2.xllhttp.4.0 to send and receive raw http requests.
The second method is more controllable but using IE oftens helps with some 
awkward things such as cookies.


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date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:59:47 +0100 author: Joe Fawcett am

Re: Internet Data entry programs

I don't understand what you were telling me to do, but I did find something 
that works.

Someone loaned me a book and browsing through it I found the  "AppActivate" 
command and the "Sendkey" command. I can manually open IE, find my web site, 
log in, find the page with the data entry fields, put the curser in the 
correct field, then run the my program. AppActivate calls IE back up, then 
Sendkey data to the fields alternating with tab characters.

This of course is only a small part of what I was asking for a program to 
do, but it was the most important part. I can figure the rest out later.

Thanks

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"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message 
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> "ROBERT VERNON"  wrote in message 
> news:f554g.26637$HC3.6058@trnddc07...
>>I run a web site and want to write a program to help me update it. I would
>> appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction as far as this is
>> concerned.
>>
>> The main thing here is that I don't know how a vb program can send it's
>> output to a web page instead of a page that is internal to itself. Your
>> feedback on this idea would be much appreciated.
>>
>> I would want the program to go to the web, find a certain web site, log 
>> in
>> with my unpw, go to the correct page of the site, enter data in the 
>> blanks
>> of that page (max 30 entries), submit those entries, gather the info the 
>> web
>> site returned, use that info to update my web page, then do that over and
>> over until all the items of my web site have been checked.
>>
>> If this program can only do part of that, then it would need to be the 
>> data
>> entry part, cause that is what takes the largest amount of my time and
>> effort manually.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Robert
>>
>> -- 
>>
>>
>>
>> For great deals on great gifts checkout
>>        www.realprettystuff.com
>>
>>
> I don't think this is a good way to things, it's an ideal scenario for a 
> web service on your site which accepts the data.
>
> The way fowrad with your current situation is to either use automation of 
> IE, search for internetexplorer.application in the scripting newsgroups 
> (microsoft.public.scripting.* in google.groups) or to use the 
> msxml2.xllhttp.4.0 to send and receive raw http requests.
> The second method is more controllable but using IE oftens helps with some 
> awkward things such as cookies.
>
>
> -- 
>
> Joe Fawcett -  XML MVP
>
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=8AA9D5F5-E1C2-44C7-BCE8-8741D22D17A5
>

date: Thu, 04 May 2006 17:16:31 GMT author: ROBERT VERNON