Venerable Monks,
I’m new to Perl and I’ve just learned about the wonders of WWW::Mechanize, so I tried to write an example code.

I tried posting a comment on my blog:
http://www.attorneycar.com/what-to-do-in-a-car-accident/

Firstly I read the form fieds with mech-dump:

$ mech-dump “http://www.attorneycar.com/what-to-do-in-a-car-accident/”

GET http://www.attorneycar.com/index.php

s=search this site… (text)

POST http://www.attorneycar.com/wp-comments-post.php

author= (text) email= (text) url= (text) comment= (textarea) submit=Submit Comment (submit) comment_post_ID=37 (hidden readonly)

Then I wrote the following code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $url;
my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new(autocheck => 1);
my $response;

use WWW::Mechanize;
$url = ‘http://www.attorneycar.com/what-to-do-in-a-car-accident/’;
$m->get($url);
$m->field(‘author’, ‘test’);
$m->field(‘email’, ‘test@hotmail.com’);
$m->field(‘url’, ‘sasdsadadasd’);
$m->field(‘comment’, ‘sasdsadadasd’);
$response = $m->submit();
print $response->content();

But when I try to run it I get:

$ perl wpress.pl
No such field ‘author’ at /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 1247

Any ideas?

In reply to WWW::Mechanize can't see the fields by rlopes

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