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A simple XHTML submit form for ProjectX

Preparing ProjectX API requests through the browser's address bar can get quite messy, however inputting the request through a simple form makes it much easier to read.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>ProjectX API</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>ProjectX API form</h1>
    <p>Enter the Project API XML to send a request to the server.</p>
    <form action="http://rorbuilder.info/api/projectx.cgi" method="post" id="projectx_form">
    <fieldset><legend>xml_project</legend><textarea id="xml_project" name="xml_project" cols="104" rows="20"></textarea></fieldset>
    <div><button type="submit">Submit</button></div>
    </form>
  <p>
    <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
        src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10"
        alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict" height="31" width="88" style="float:right;  border:0 "/></a>
  </p>
  <p style="clear:float">last updated: 13th April 2008</p>
  
  </body>
</html>


The web page can be seen at http://rorbuilder.info/r/projectx-api/index.html
The following XML request value when submitted should return an XML result containing the results and the method executed.
<project name='whiteboardqueue'>
  <methods>
    <method name='get_user_id'>
      <params/>
    </method>
  </methods>
</project>

eg.
<result method="rtn_get_user_id">
  <get_user_id>36539</get_user_id>
</result>
to html form post get xhtml action api method projectx by jrobertson on Apr 13, 2008

Easiest way to do a POST test from Java

I need to test services with POST transactions. Using HTML to do it is the easiest way, constructed in Java (that part isn't necessary unless the args are somehow cooked or just too complex to trust hand-crafted HTML).

// write the HTML code out to stdout -- leave it to the user to redirect
System.out.print( "<html><body><form id='test' name='test' action='" );
System.out.print( url );
System.out.print( "/getStuff' method='POST'><input type='hidden' id='cid' name='cid' value=\"" );
System.out.print(  compId );
System.out.print( "\"/><input type='hidden' id='ids' name='ids' value=\"" );
System.out.print( ids );
System.out.print( "\"/>" );
System.out.print( "<input type='submit' name='Submit' value='Submit'></form></body></html>" );
System.out.println();
to html java post by frost137 on Mar 11, 2008

'Delete a Twitter entry' dissected

The following code was copied from my Twitter home page, it shows how to delete a twitter entry on the server.

raw HTML code with embedded JavaScript code.

<a href="/status/destroy/719423092" onclick="if (confirm('Sure you want to delete this update? There is NO undo!')) 
{var f = document.createElement('form'); f.style.display = 'none'; this.parentNode.appendChild(f); f.method = 
'POST'; f.action = this.href;var m = document.createElement('input'); m.setAttribute('type', 'hidden'); 
m.setAttribute('name', '_method'); m.setAttribute('value', 'delete'); f.appendChild(m);var s = 
document.createElement('input'); s.setAttribute('type', 'hidden'); s.setAttribute('name', 'authenticity_token'); 
s.setAttribute('value', 'd0057265c3784d2a6dc6cdb2c26083f638152151'); f.appendChild(s);f.submit(); };return false;" 
title="Delete this update?">


same code as above but with comments.
<a href="/status/destroy/719423092" onclick="

                     // if the user clicks the 'OK' button the confirm function will return true
if (confirm('Sure you want to delete this update? There is NO undo!')) { 

  // -- dhtml: creating html elements on-the-fly -------------------------------
  var f = document.createElement('form'); // create the dhtml 'form' (<form/>) element
  f.style.display = 'none';               // hide the form
  this.parentNode.appendChild(f);         // append the form element to the parent of the current node (<a/>)
  f.method = 'POST';                      // add the method to the form
  f.action = this.href;                   // add the action using the href of the current node (<a/>)
    
  var m = document.createElement('input');   // create the input (<input/>) 'element' 
  m.setAttribute('type', 'hidden');          // set the input type to 'hidden'
  m.setAttribute('name', '_method');         // set the input name to '_method'
  m.setAttribute('value', 'delete');         // set the input value to 'delete'
  f.appendChild(m);                          // append the input element to the form element
  
  var s = document.createElement('input');   // create another input element
  s.setAttribute('type', 'hidden');          // set the type to 'hidden'
  s.setAttribute('name', 'authenticity_token'); // set the name to 'authenticity_token'
  
                                     // set the input element's value using a unique id.
  s.setAttribute('value', 'd0057265c3784d2a6dc6cdb2c26083f638152151'); 
  
  f.appendChild(s);                  // apend the input element to the form element
  // -- end of dhtml: creating html elements on-the-fly -------------------------------
  
  f.submit(); // post the form data back to the server to delete the record, 
              // just as if the user had pressed the submit button.
};

  return false; // returning false cancels the default <a href="..."> request. 
                 // However if JavaScript had been disabled for some reason the 
                 // <a href="..."> would have acted normally, meaning the record 
                 // would have been deleted from following the URL request directly.
 "

Note: Twitter needs JavaScript for the web page to work properly, I've tried and it is not possible to delete a record without JavaScript. The authenticity_token has been altered by me to prevent any malicious activity on my Twitter account.
to javascript form input post dhtml delete twitter hidden by jrobertson on Feb 16, 2008

PHP: Email All Form Values

If you need a very basic contact form and don't want to write extra code for putting the value of each field into the email, you can use this basic email. It works best if you name your form fields something legible, such as First_Name

if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) {
	// Prepare message
	$msg = "Time: " . date("m/d/y g:ia", time()) . "\n";
	foreach ($_POST as $field=>$value) {
		if ($field != "submit") $msg .= $field . ": " . $value . "\n";
	}
	
	if (mail("TOEMAIL", "SUBJECT", $msg, "From: FROM_NAME <FROM@ADDRESS.com>")) {
		// Email was sent
	} else {
		// Erro sending email
	}
}
to php email post values by cornerblue on Jul 19, 2007

PHP: Pass On Values For A Multi-Page Form

While the best way to do this involves saving the data into a database and passing an encrypted reference to the next page, this method will suffice for non-critical uses.

foreach ($_POST as $field=>$value) {
	echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"" . $field . "\" value=\"" . $value . "\" />";
}
to php form post values pass multipage multi-page by cornerblue on Jul 19, 2007 1 Comments

Encoding trouble with JQuery #1

// description of your code here

[["li01_tx_cl_c3l1_1","Salaire fixe brut mensuel hors primes : "],["li01_tx_cl_c3l1_2"," "],["li01_is_c3is1","Se calcule sur la base suivante: Salaire mensuel brut négocié divisé par 1.01"],["li02_tx_cl_c3l1_1","Prime de vacances: "],["li02_tx_cl_c3l1_2"," "],["li02_is_c3is2","Correspond à 1% du Salaire fixe brut mensuel hors primes"],["es_cl_c3l1","default_list"]]
to encoding post jquery by SoftExpert on Mar 06, 2007

Encoding trouble with JQuery #1

// description of your code here

[["li01_tx_cl_c3l1_1","Salaire fixe brut mensuel hors primes : "],["li01_tx_cl_c3l1_2"," "],["li01_is_c3is1","Se calcule sur la base suivante: Salaire mensuel brut négocié divisé par 1.01"],["li02_tx_cl_c3l1_1","Prime de vacances: "],["li02_tx_cl_c3l1_2"," "],["li02_is_c3is2","Correspond à 1% du Salaire fixe brut mensuel hors primes"],["es_cl_c3l1","default_list"]]
to encoding post jquery by SoftExpert on Mar 06, 2007

Perl - send form POST

// Manda le informazioni per il login ad un determinato sito

use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $user = "user";
my $pass = "pass";

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();

my $responde = HTTP::Request->new(POST => "http://www.sito.com/index.php");
$responde->content_type("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
$responde->content("user=" . $user . "&pass=" . $pass);

$browser->request($responde)->as_string
to perl form http post lwp request www useragent by whitetiger on Dec 18, 2006

Python - Query BabelFish

//Example di POST HTTP

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib

def translate(lang='it_en', text='ciao'):
	
	'''Converte delle frasi da una lingua sorgente ad una lingua destinazione'''

	url = urllib.URLopener()
	
	query = urllib.urlencode({'doit':'done', 'intl':'1', 'lp':lang, 'tt':'urltext', 'urltext':text})
	
	responde = url.open('http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr', query).read()

	start = responde.find('<div style=padding:10px;>') + 25
	stop = responde.find('</div>', start)

	print responde[start:stop]
to html python string web http text post get translate pys60 by whitetiger on Oct 30, 2006

#post method in tests with a different controller

I wanted a #login method in test_helper that would allow me to easily login from any of my functional tests. However, the #post method won't allow you to set a different controller than the one in the @controller instance variable that's defined in your test's #setup. Well, by looking at how the #process method works, you can see that it just grabs the controller from @controller. Redefine that, and you're good to go:
old_controller = @controller
@controller = LoginController.new
post(
  :attempt_login,
  {:user => {:name => 'joe', :password => 'password'}}
)
@controller = old_controller

If you have several login methods, such as a #login_admin and #login_regular, you could make a wrapper to reduce duplication:
def wrap_with_controller( new_controller = LoginController )
  old_controller = @controller
  @controller = new_controller.new
  yield
  @controller = old_controller
end

def login_admin
  wrap_with_controller do
    post(
      :attempt_login,
      {:user => {:name => 'root', :password => 'password'}}
    )
  end
end

def login_regular
  wrap_with_controller do
    post(
      :attempt_login,
      {:user => {:name => 'joe', :password => 'password'}}
    )
  end
end

to ruby rails test rubyonrails post testing controller functional tests method process by moneypenny on Oct 24, 2006
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