Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, i want to adress a textfield in a html page, but its not part of any form.It says in the documentation: This applies to the current form (as set by the "form_name()" or "form_number()" method or defaulting to the first form on the page). But there is no form. I looked at the html code and it says something like :<button type="submit" id="InputButton1"></button> I tried to adress it with the $mech->field() method by mentioning its ID but its not working. How can i address these fields that are not in any form. Or am i doing something else wrong? Ty

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Re: using WWW::Mechanize to adress fields
by zentara (Cardinal) on Jun 13, 2014 at 14:49 UTC
    It wont install: make test had returned bad status, won't install without force Failed during this command: SPROUT/JE-0.060.tar.gz : make_test NO SPROUT/WWW-Scripter-Plugin-JavaScript-0.008a.tar.gz: make_test NO 2 dependencies missing (JE,JE::Destroyer); additionally test harness failed Can you tell me what is the problem and how i can resolve this?

    I just installed it via CPAN and got the same error. The problem is that cpan:://JE is failing the tests, and CPAN won't install without a force. I manually downloaded and installed JE then CPAN installed WWW::Scripter::Plugin::JavaScript just fine.

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      Tried that too, not listed by PPM and won't install manually. Any suggestions? I will look some more and otherwise i'll repost a question, ty.

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        not listed by PPM and won't install manually

        In addition to the cpan way of forcing with notest, which Anonymous Monk so generously showed you, I did it the old fashioned way.

        Go to JE and download it from cpan JE download
        Then tar -xvf the tarball.
        Then:
        "perl Makefile.PL"
        make
        sudo make install

        The go back to the cpan utlity:
        $ cpan install WWW::Scripter::Plugin::JavaScript

        If that don't work, tell us what errors you are getting.

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        Tried that too, not listed by PPM

        zentara wasn't talking about PPM

        and won't install manually.

        sure it will, easiest thing in the world 

        cpanp -i --skiptest Modulename  --force 
cpan -f -i -T  Modulename 
cpanm --install --notest --force Modulename
cpanm -i -n -f Modulename

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        Any suggestions? I will look some more and otherwise i'll repost a question, ty.

        Don't repost, figure it out :)

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Re: using WWW::Mechanize to adress fields
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 13, 2014 at 07:56 UTC

    Hi, i want to adress a textfield in a html page, but its not part of any form

    Seeing how WWW::Mechanize uses HTML::Form which only deals with stuff in forms, you cannot adress any such textfield, it doesn't exist in the HTML::Form object

    The good news is you don't need to submit any form object to make get/post requests, just use the get/post method as documented

     $ua->get( $url , $field_name => $value, ... )

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Re: using WWW::Mechanize to adress fields
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 13, 2014 at 08:27 UTC

    hmm, it says http method Post is not supported by this Url. The get method works though. I am trying to enter a chat similar to the one here. Any suggestions?

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      Have you checked whether that page uses Javascript? WWW::Mechanize does not support Javascript.

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        It does. But the code is in different files. I dont know what to make of it all. Is there a similar module that has support for Javascript? All i have to do is pass a value and simulate a button click it appears.

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Re: using WWW::Mechanize to adress fields
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 14, 2014 at 09:38 UTC

    Yes, its working. After watching the HTTP traffic i copied some parameters and i can reach the chat. Thanks for the advice, bye bye.

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