I'm starting a simple script that submits data to some of the lower-end search engines that don't have image codes and all that.

I decided putting the information for each engine in a txt file (see below) would be easiest as I can update information in the future without touching the script itself. 

NAME SUBMIT_URL  FORM_ACTION  FORM_NAME  FORM_PARAMS  HIDDEN_PARAMS  S
+UCCESS_TXT
Aesop::http://www.aesop.com/cgi-bin/aesopadd.cgi::GET::1::EMAIL,URL::N
+AME,terms=yes,VERIFIER=072-58::Thank you for using
Amidalla::http://www.amidalla.com/add.htm::POST::1::addurl::::thank yo
+u for

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I just got stumped. I'll be passing a $url, $email, etc to all these engines but each engine calls it something else. So how would I know what variable the URL is supposed to go into if it's not 'url'? It could be V_add, url, URL, pageurl, webaddy, etc.

I can't think of ANY way to do that unless I did so in the txt file. 

NAME SUBMIT_URL  FORM_ACTION  FORM_NAME  FORM_PARAMS  HIDDEN_PARAMS  S
+UCCESS_TXT
Aesop::http://www.aesop.com/cgi-bin/aesopadd.cgi::GET::1::EMAIL=$email
+,URL=$url::NAME=$name,terms=yes,VERIFIER=072-58::Thank you for using
Amidalla::http://www.amidalla.com/add.htm::POST::1::addurl=$url::::tha
+nk you for

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Now I think this would work. I could also setup a mysql database, too, which I flirted with for a few minutes. Then I thought that using Mysql to parse all the data (and then splitting some of the fields anyway) would be a bit slower than this text file, and less managable.

One last question. Occassionally there will be one checkbox for an acceptance of terms and the check has a value. Do I have to care what the value is or will www::mechanize click it anyway?

Thanks!

In reply to passing along fields to www::mechanize by coldfingertips

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