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[Daymond]

Hi, Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can provide.

My issue should be a simple one. I am working on a front end to help me manage my affiliate accounts.

On one of the affiliate sites I deal with, I come to a page with 4 forms on it. Each form has a submit button named submit. Of course if I use something like:

$var = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "submit")

I receive the first form's submit on the page. I have attempted getting the form collection and various ways to manipulate that to attempt to get form1's submit button and must be overlooking something.

I have a secondary form I am working on some error checking once the form is submitted, but am stuck on how to parse the text on the page for the following words that come up in green if the form was filled out correctly. Words in green: Submitted Successfully.

Thanks again for any assistance.

[water]

Try

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 1)
$var = _IEFormGetObjByName($oForm, "submit")

to access the first form on your webpage.

[Daymond]

Try

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 1)
$var = _IEFormGetObjByName($oForm, "submit")

to access the first form on your webpage.

Ok, I have given this code a try before as well and just attempted again. However, allow me to clarify that this is actually the 4th form on the page. The first is frmlogin, the second frmrecpswd, the third 0 and the 4th form1.

I used the above code but when I choose to _IEAction($var, "click") it has no effect. Here is my code:

The other 2 variables are data returns from the database.

$oIE = _IECreate("http://" & $affil & $dom)
_IELoadWait($oIE)
$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 4)
$Submit = _IEFormGetObjByName($oForm, "submit")
_IEAction($Submit, "click")

Again nothing happens, the browser stops on the page with the forms.

Here is the code I used to collect the form information:

$oForms = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE)
Local $iNumForms = @extended
MsgBox(0, "Forms Info", "There are " & $iNumForms & " forms on this page")
For $i = 0 To $iNumForms - 1
$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, $i)
MsgBox(0, "Form Info", $oForm.name)
Next

Edited by Daymond, 19 June 2012 - 06:13 AM.

[water]

I would suggest do add at least some minimal error checking:

$oIE = _IECreate("http://" & $affil & $dom)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
_IELoadWait($oIE)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 4)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
$Submit = _IEFormGetObjByName($oForm, "submit")
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
_IEAction($Submit, "click")
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)

What do you get?

[ReFran]

Mmmh,

you may also have a look on the form element and use something like:

$oDiv = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm ,"submit")
_IEAction ($oDiv,"click")

HTH, Reinhard

[Daymond]

I would suggest do add at least some minimal error checking:

$oIE = _IECreate("http://" & $affil & $dom)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
_IELoadWait($oIE)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 4)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
$Submit = _IEFormGetObjByName($oForm, "submit")
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
_IEAction($Submit, "click")
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)

What do you get?

I get the following:

--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Warning from function _IEFormGetCollection, $_IEStatus_NoMatch
7
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
3
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEAction, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
3

[water]

Seems like the instance index starts with 0. So replace

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 4)

with

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 3)

[Daymond]

Seems like the instance index starts with 0. So replace

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 4)

with

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, 3)

Yeah, tried that, then 2, then 1 and even 0. I get the same results.

[water]

Another try. This should write the number of forms to the console as well:

$oIE = _IECreate("http://" & $affil & $dom)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
_IELoadWait($oIE)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, -1)
ConsoleWrite(@error & "-" & @extended & @CRLF)

[Daymond]

Mmmh,

you may also have a look on the form element and use something like:

$oDiv = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm ,"submit")
_IEAction ($oDiv,"click")

HTH, Reinhard

Strange, with the minimal error checking set, I receive the follwoing when I try that code:

--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Warning from function _IEFormElementGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_NoMatch
7
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEAction, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
3
0

[Daymond]

Another try. This should write the number of forms to the console as well:

$oIE = _IECreate("http://" & $affil & $dom)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
_IELoadWait($oIE)
ConsoleWrite(@error & @CRLF)
$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE, -1)
ConsoleWrite(@error & "-" & @extended & @CRLF)

i receive the following:
0
0
0
0-4

[Daymond]

Taken from the source of the page I am working in, stripped down of course.

<form id="frm1" name="form1" method="post" action="securesignup_choosecountry.asp">
 
<input type="hidden" Name="UserName" Value="Daymond">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Continue" onclick="javascript:window.onbeforeunload = null;return checkform(event);">
                      </p>
                    </form>

[DaleHohm]

One word. Frames.

If you

ConsoleWrite(_IEDocReadHTML($oIE) & @CRLF)

I think you will find a frameset or one or more iframes and not your forms.

You'll then need to use _IEFrameGetObjByName() and use the object returned as you would $oIE.

Dale

[Daymond]

One word. Frames.

If you

ConsoleWrite(_IEDocReadHTML($oIE) & @CRLF)

I think you will find a frameset or one or more iframes and not your forms.

You'll then need to use _IEFrameGetObjByName() and use the object returned as you would $oIE.

Dale

Thanks Dale, but as it turns out, with IE9 I was able to use the following 2 lines of code to solve the issue, but it still fails on Windows XP with IE8.

$Sub = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "form1")
_IEFormSubmit($Sub)

I still have a couple of other snags I need to work through and am sure I will be posting more questions. lol

Thanks everyone for the assistance!