[San-Diego-pm] Running PHP slide show from Perl

[Nicholas Wehr]

Joel, without knowing more about the details of your system - I would say
that your solution strategy seems to be introducing a lot of complexity and
indirection. If there is a problem with the php/javascript application, I
think your time is best spent solving it within that environment.
Alternately, php developers are plentiful for contract...

-nw

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Joel Fentin <joel at fentin.com> wrote:

> On 10/6/2010 11:26 AM, Nicholas Wehr wrote:
>
>> hm, well I see how this can be challenging.
>>
>> is your goal to download a webpage and redisplay it with perl? or
>> do you just want the php web content?
>>
>> if so, I recommend WWW::Mechanize
>>
>
> As brief as I can make it.
>
> + go to http://calscape.com/
>
> + click the "Trees" dynamic link. You should see a list of trees.
>
> + click the thumbnail or common name of the first tree. A page is displayed
> specific to that tree. Note the slide show.
>
> + Click the 'Next Plant' link (near upper right corner). Another plant page
> is displayed. Note the slide show.
>
> + Click the browser back button. the prior plant data is displayed but not
> the prior slide show.
>
> ===============
>
> + I put that slide show into that page with an iframe.
>
> + I create the show on the fly per the specific plant we are looking at.
>
> + The slide show is an older version (also php) soon to be replaced by
> plant1.php or something very like it.
>
> + I was experimenting with system() as a means to solve the back button
> problem.
>
> ===============
>
> Is anybody still awake?
>
> --
> Joel Fentin       tel: 760-749-8863
> Biz Website:      http://fentin.com
> Personal Website: http://fentin.com/me
>
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