This is my first time posting - I greatly appreciate any and all guidance on this subject.
Background: I am building a Real Estate web site. I would like to use the free IDX data provided by my local MLS board. The MLS board does not allow me the option of displaying a predefined search and only provides me with a link to the search field. after filling out the search field, I am able to view the results.
Goal: I would like to bypass this step and frame the results page into a GoDaddy website I am building, which supports HTML.
Here is a link to the search page:
http://fgcmls.rapmls.com/scripts/mgrqispi.dll?APPNAME=Fortmyers&PRGNAME=MLSLogin&ARGUMENT=vBSJvLQtMcbg7F0O0KnXDiggv%2F12B0S6Ss9wv4510QA%3D&KeyRid=1
I am trying to only show the listings that appear in my neighborhood. Options include:
1. Property Type - Residential
2. GEO Area - FM11
3. Developments: Fiddlesticks Country Club
Once this criteria is entered, I have the page needed to make this project work.
Thank all of you for taking the time to read this and for the time you spend helping me out.
Best regards,
Chris
Without looking at the page itself, it's probably doing a "POST" operation to give the form to the website. You should be able to use javascript (maybe jquery or some other ajax framework) to do this for you in the frame and have it display the results.
-Adam
So long as this is a POST form and they aren't doing a lot of strict referrer checking, the following should work:
Replicate the form on your own site.
Make a few minor changes to automate a few of the fields to better serve your geographic area/company.
Ensure everything is a full path and not relative to the server handling the query.
You will probably end up changing a lot of the text/select fields to hidden fields with pre-set values to keep it simple for end-users. The server handling the request won't know the kind of field it came from, just the value and name.
I took a look at the page HTML, the form posts is defined thusly:
<FORM action="/scripts/mgrqispi.dll" method="POST" name="InputForm" />
you may be able to create your own form defined like this:
<FORM action="http://fgcmls.rapmls.com/scripts/mgrqispi.dll" method="POST" name="InputForm">
</FORM>
You will have to go through the HTML on the page you provided to get the appropriate ID's and Name's of the form elements you are interested in. Its possible their processing page checks to ensure its their form that is submitting to it, in which case this wouldn't work.
good luck.
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I have a form on the home page of quotedjobs.com that I would like to persist the field values of across pages.
For example: A user enters some values in fields, such as job title (textbox), job type (list) and job description (text field). Underneath that I ask users to register on the site, but they have the option to click a link to allow them to login if they are already members.
What I would like to be able to do, is to redirect users to another form that is a copy, but allows them to login instead of register, but keep hold of the values that they entered in the title, type and description form of the previous page so they aren't losing their work.
I have seen the ninja_forms_processing variable in the docs, but I'm not clear on how to use that.
TL;DR - You can't.
As it was slim pickings here, I sent an email over to support. Got this response:
Hello,
At this time this use case is not possible in Ninja Forms. The plugin is currently unable to transfer data from field to field or between forms.
I’m sorry that we do not have a better solution for you at this time.
Thank you,
My company is using marketo forms, and we are generating the page from a content management system.
We'd like to keep the contribution experience as simple as possible and prevent the user from contributing actual <script> tags.
The API documentation says they will give you a block of code that looks like this:
<script src="//app-sjqe.marketo.com/js/forms2/js/forms2.js"></script>
<form id="mktoForm_621"></form>
<script>MktoForms2.loadForm("//app-sjqe.marketo.com", "718-GIV-198", 621);</script>
My question is, what portions of this code are subject to change?
I am sure the 3 part hypen separated string and the integer being passed in can change.
What about the app-sjqe.marketo.com address?
The 3-part string is your Marketo instance ID, and shouldn't really change. The other integer is the form ID, which definitely will change depending on what form you want to embed.
The other thing that you may want to consider, is the other configurable options that you can send along with the form embed. For example, in the module that I have made for my CMS, I let the user put an optional 'thank-you' page URL, to redirect the form to after submission, and also a checkbox to optionally open the form in a lightbox on page load.
The simple module I made is for the Sitefinity CMS - happy to share code with you if that helps!
I know that this topic has been discussed before in varying extent but I have some specific queries. I will use an example for this case and would like to request you for your views.
Example:- A home finance management website. There are two pages. The basic page after login is an empty page with a text box. Type in "Rent" and rent details and trends pop up. Type in "Bills" and bill details and history pop up. The data shown to user is different of course.
Now -
1. If I place an Adsense script in the basic home page where I just have a text box, will it be disqualified for not having enough content ?
2. Even if the content changes (AJAX), does the ad change to suit the content ? Does the crawler keep a constant check of index the pages after defined intervals and whatever it finds there is kept and searched for keywords ? The same page may show different content to different users and hence have different keywords. (Also, since login would be cookie based, how does crawler see this page ?)
Edit -
I know from HERE that Google does take AJAX calls into account but since the results would be dynamically populated by accessing a database and while populating unique data, the bot looking at the form action page doesn't help much, does it?
3. Google prefers GET method. So if I go like this - xyz.com?show=rent / xyz.com?show=bills, the page is regenerated and the script reloaded but each time the crawler sniffs any one of the two pages, it might see different content for different users. What does it do ?
4. If I do not reload the page by form submission and the page is not regenerated every time, can I call a function to document.write the div I am putting the ad in ? Would that make it re-sniff the page ?
Any help is much appreciated.
I have three simple html or php file that I'm going to create.
What will be include in there is that a content such as video's name or let say a person name
in total it will be almost 2000 of them
but I will split it to three different pages or maybe I will make it one page with different categories.
now my question is that how will I make a search form that can be search from a different page while they are still on the page index
this is what I'm currently using <div class="searchbox"><form action="index.php" method="post"> <input type="text" name="q" value="">
this search form is a live time search result
but I will it to be able to search from other page as well or from a different categories
but where should I put the tag or anything to the content in order to get the search show the result.
I guess something like that could be done with javascript but it isn't really my forte. But one issue with this is the other pages don't really exist on the users browser until they have browsed them so you might have to download a bunch of pages in the background. Doesn't sound like a great solution to me.
I'd recommend doing searches on the server side where you have the data, rather than trying to parse rendered html on the users machine. And then send the results to the user.
When you share something on Facebook or Digg, it generates some summary of the page. How would I do this in Perl? What algorithms are there?
For example:
If I go to Facebook and tried to share this question as a link:
How can I create a website summary with Perl?
It retrieves "Facebook/Digg get website summary? - Stack Overflow" as the title (which is just the title of the page) and [... incomplete question?]
CPAN is your friend.
Some promising looking modules:
HTML::Summary
HTML::SummaryBasic
Lingua::EN::Summarize
Assuming you mean sharing a link...
Usually the summary is written by the user submitting the URL. If you have to write a summary automagically this can be achieved by:
Using the first 100 or so characters of the document body (in itself not easy)
Using metadata like the description or keywords (often empty or spammed)
Context-relevant summaries like recreating Google snippets (sorry its PHP but simple)
Tags/keywords from the document using something like the Yahoo Keyword Extractor API or your own keyword density function
Your best bet is to ask the user!
Hope that helps somewhat :)
Basically you want to scrape the URL and find the "most significant paragraph" which might be the first <div> or <p> element after the first <h2> or <h1>, depending on the layout of the page.
You could check and see if there is a meta description on the page, but that leaves you at the mercy of whoever wrote the meta description.