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Broad question: How can I enter the first topic in a forum? As an example go to http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showforum=2 and enter the first topic on the list.

I really don't know where to start :P

Study the examples in the help file for the _IE* functions. The method used would depend a great deal on the web page you are working with. If the topics are links, then you can use _IELinkGetCollection(), for example.

After you try it yourself, if you need more help, post what you've got (nobody is likely to write it for you).

:P

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Hi PsaltyDS,

I had a play with _IELinkGetCollection() and returned all the links on the page etc but how can I select 1 link with the collection. I tryed doing oLinks[5] (using it like an array) to pick a single link but it throws an error in the expression ;)

Any ideas how I can select a single link within the collection?

--muzle

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Hi PsaltyDS,

I had a play with _IELinkGetCollection() and returned all the links on the page etc but how can I select 1 link with the collection. I tryed doing oLinks[5] (using it like an array) to pick a single link but it throws an error in the expression :D

Any ideas how I can select a single link within the collection?

--muzle

It is a COM Collection Object, not an array (though it's sort of like an array).

If you know exactly which 1-based index it is, you can try: $oLinks.Item(5).

The more usual method (since you usually don't know the exact index) is to loop through the obects in the collection to find the one you want:

For $oLink In $oLinks
      If String($oLink.InnerText) = "This is it!" Then MsgBox(64, "Found", "Found link.")
Next

There are many other properties besides .InnerText to use in identifying the one you want. You'll have to determine what works in your situation.

;)

Edit: Tweaked to ensure string from .InnerText, per Dale.

Edited by PsaltyDS
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Make sure you force the attribute into a string. If you find a link with null innerText it will return integer 0 and do an integer comparison... surprise, surprise,

0 = "This is it!"

evaluates to TRUE

String(0) = "This is it!"

evaluates to FALSE

For $oLink In $oLinks
      If String($oLink.InnerText) = "This is it!" Then MsgBox(64, "Found", "Found link.")
Next

Dale

Edited by DaleHohm

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