Hi again Anonymous Monk (and anyone else who may be able to help),

Having had a look at the links you've provided, I decided to give WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS a try.

I installed the current version (0.06) on the commercial webhost that I use, using the cPanel webhosting control panel. The server is CentOS. I could not see any errors during the installation - it looked as if it installed OK. I then tried a couple of examples, including the first one at the top of the documentation page, and it fails. I then added warnings and strict, and here's the resulting code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS->new();
$mech->get('http://google.com');

$mech->eval_in_page('alert("Hello PhantomJS")');
my $png= $mech->content_as_png();

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And here's the warning and error which result: 
Can't exec "phantomjs": No such file or directory at /home/tel2/perl5/
+lib/perl5/WWW/Mechanize/PhantomJS.pm line 101.
Couldn't launch [| phantomjs /home/tel2/perl5/lib/perl5/WWW/Mechanize/
+PhantomJS/ghostdriver/main.js --PhantomJS=8910 --logLevel=OFF]: No su
+ch file or directory / 0 at /home/tel2/perl5/lib/perl5/WWW/Mechanize/
+PhantomJS.pm line 101.

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Here is that section of code in PhantomJS.pm: 

    # Launch PhantomJs
    $options{ launch_exe } ||= 'phantomjs';
    (my $ghostdir_default= __FILE__) =~ s!\.pm$!!;
    $ghostdir_default= File::Spec->catfile( $ghostdir_default, 'ghostd
+river', 'main.js' );
    $options{ launch_ghostdir } ||= $ghostdir_default;
    $options{ launch_arg } ||= [];
    push @{ $options{ launch_arg }}, "--PhantomJS=$options{ port }";
    push @{ $options{ launch_arg }}, "--logLevel=\U$options{ log }";
    my $cmd= "| $options{ launch_exe } $options{ launch_ghostdir } @{ 
+$options{ launch_arg } }";
    #warn $cmd;
    $options{ pid } ||= open my $fh, $cmd
        or die "Couldn't launch [$cmd]: $! / $?";

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The last line is line 101.

I've googled a bit for answers, but nothing yet. Any ideas what the problem is, or how to fix this?

Thanks again.
tel2

In reply to Re: Clicking a button with WWW::Mechanize by tel2
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