Help with filling an online form

[Gerson]

Hi I'm writing a script to help me with my work. I'm working with databases and have to fill up forms on IE. This is as far as I've come.

#include <IE.au3>

WinWait("Home")

Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Home")

Local $sHWND = String($hWnd) ; Convert to a string

$oIE = _IEAttach ($sHWND, "HWND")

$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "MainForm")

$oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "temp_specification_Client")

_IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "Orleans")

Whats the mistake?

[Community On Patrol]

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[Skruge]

How far do you get? Where is it failing?

You don't need to convert the HWND to a string...

Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Home")
 
   $oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "HWND")

[Tomb]

Hi Gerson,

1st Welcome to the AutoIt Forums!

Some of the following tips may not apply to you, but it may make your life a bit easier here on the forum in the future.

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• Did you know that we have an awesome search feature?

  You can find many answers to your current questions, just by typing in the right search patterns.

• A suggestion is to use the Advanced Search mode:

• Type your specific search term in quotes.
• Click the forum you want to search in (the one most likely to have your information would generally be the Example Script forum and or the General Help and Support Forum).
• Click on "Search titles only" radio button.
• Click perform search.

The above will help you narrow down your searches and prevent you from unneccesarily posting a new thread.

[*]Also, you should try to read the Sticky posts that are at the top of each of the AutoIt Forums you enter such as:

• FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

• Are my AutoIt EXEs really infected? (About false positives and what to do if you may encounter one)

[*]Keep in mind, the help file will be your best friend, however you may find some of the tutorials written by some of our elite forum members helpful.

• Valuaters Interactive AutoIt 1-2-3 tutorial

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  • Use the Search feature first to see if your question has already been answered.
  • Look in the help file as well before even thinking of posting (When what you want could be obtained by simply reading the help file, you don't generally get a good response from your AutoIt community).
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  • Make sure you are posting in the correct forum:
    • General Help and Support:
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      • Please don't post questions in this forum unless it's directly related to a thread already existing.
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  • Show you've made an effort in coding what you want (provide the reproducer code (generally no more than 50 lines as people lose interest in debugging someones script for free)).
  • Don't talk in ebonics. A lot of the forum members are adults, and a lot of them know how to help you, but talk like a child, you'll be treated as such.
  • Don't ask for help making keyloggers, spam (even if it's to do as a prank), or anything that can be thought of as malicious. You'll more than likely have the thread locked by a moderator, and take a bashing from your fellow AutoIt community.
  • When posting code, use code boxes. This can be accomplished by using [code ]<content here>[/code ] (No spaces between the brackets []).

    Using code boxes will keep the indentation and make it easier to read for others to help you.

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• Rude or obnoxious content:

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  • Don't use foul language, remember, a lot of the community is at work when they read these threads.
  • Don't provoke or instigate an argument with someone.
• Double Posting:
  • It's understood that sometimes there's a lag in the system, and sometimes people don't see their post go up right aways so they post again.

    If this happens to you, simply notify a moderator with the report feature in the post, and politely ask them to delete it.

  • If you're just creating another topic because your original topic is not being answered the way you want or at all, this is not tolerated. You could lose your posting privileges all together over it.
• Non-English languages
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    We have wonderful users from around the world, so after you've done your post in English, back it up with your question also in your native tongue (You may find your answer much quicker using both).

That's it for now, I hope you have a wonderful learning experience, and hope to see you contribute to the community as your knowledge grows.

what this guy said.

[Gerson]

Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Home")

   $oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "HWND")

I made that change but it still doesn't work. The script runs through but the form elements don't get filled. I'm pretty sure of the form and element names. I used DebugBar to confirm those values.

This is the code I have so far to try filling up the first name of a yahoo mail signup form.

#include <IE.au3>
    WinWait("Yahoo")
    Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Yahoo")
    $oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "HWND")
    $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "regFormBody")
    $oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "First Name")
    _IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "PLEASE WORK!!!")

Where's the bug?

[MShah]

Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Home")

   $oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "HWND")

I made that change but it still doesn't work. The script runs through but the form elements don't get filled. I'm pretty sure of the form and element names. I used DebugBar to confirm those values.

This is the code I have so far to try filling up the first name of a yahoo mail signup form.

#include <IE.au3>
    WinWait("Yahoo")
    Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Yahoo")
    $oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "HWND")
    $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "regFormBody")
    $oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "First Name")
    _IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "PLEASE WORK!!!")

Where's the bug?

It could be possible that you are not waiting long enough for _IE to load

make these following changes and check it out

_IELoadWait($oIE,0, 20000)

after

$oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "HWND")

this will wait till the page is loaded or till 20 seconds before it times out

so your code should look like this

#include <IE.au3>
    WinWait("Yahoo")
    Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Yahoo")
    $oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "HWND")
                _IELoadWait($oIE,0, 20000)  
                $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "regFormBody")
    $oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "First Name")
    _IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "PLEASE WORK!!!")

[FreeFry]

Does it attach without errors? ie. have you checked @Error after the _IEAttach call?

Edit:

Whops double post.

Edited September 18, 2008 by FreeFry

[Gerson]

Hey guys,

The following script -

#include <IE.au3>
    WinWait("Yahoo")
    Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Yahoo")
    $oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "HWND")
    $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "regFormBody")
    $oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "username")
    _IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "PLEASE WORK!!!")

works. The algorithm also works with other forms. But it doesn't .work for my company's page. I can't post the page link here, but I'd like to know if there are other things that affect the working of this algorithm. For eg. security issues, https instead of http. stuff like that..

[Gerson]

hi again,

I was playing around with @error, and found that _IEFormGetObjByName returns 7 which is "no match". So thats the problem.

This is the code i have for my company site form.

#include <IE.au3>
    WinWait("Spectrel")
    Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Spectrel")
    $oIE = _IEAttach ($hWnd, "HWND")
                _IELoadWait($oIE,0, 20000)  
                MsgBox (0,"Load wait", @error)
                $oForm = _IEGetObjByName ($oIE, "MainForm")
                MsgBox (0,"Get obj by name", @error)
    $oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "temp_specification_Title")
    MsgBox (0,"form elemernt get obj by name", @error)
    _IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, "PLEASE WORK!!!")
    MsgBox (0,"form element set value", @error)

The @error values displayed are 0,7,3,3 in the order of the code.

0 - No error

7 - No match

3 - Invalid Data Type

This is the html code segment on the website form used by _IEGetObjByName

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" name="MainForm" method="POST">

It some how doesn't detect this form.

[DaleHohm]

Most likely cause is Frames. If the elements you want are in Frames or iFrames, you need to drill into them with _IEFrameGet* functions. DebugBar can help you with this if you know what to look for.

Also, suggest you run this from SciTe while degugging (Tools, Go) as IE.au3 will write NoMatch and other messages to the console for you and shorted your debugging cycles.

Dale

[Gerson]

I looked for iframes in the source code. These are the instances:

<iframe id="childEM_91919523__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919526__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919534__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919537__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919541__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919551__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">

Debug bar shows another iframe in addition to the ones above (in the Script tab). Which begins like

<IFRAME>src=https://java.spectrel.com/hybrid...

Is there dynamic code being generated here by a script?

[DaleHohm]

I looked for iframes in the source code. These are the instances:

<iframe id="childEM_91919523__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919526__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919534__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919537__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919541__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">
<iframe id="childEM_91919551__iframe" src="java script:false;" frameBorder="0" class="menuContainerIframeUnderlay" style="display:none;">

Debug bar shows another iframe in addition to the ones above (in the Script tab). Which begins like

<IFRAME>src=https://java.spectrel.com/hybrid...

Is there dynamic code being generated here by a script?

Quite possibly. The answer is the same however... use the _IEFrame* functions.

Dale