which IDE to use to develope GUI application for automated login and browsing a website
Hi experts!
I want to develop a GUI application/software that will login to a website with the given username and password and then click on some buttons and go to a new webpage, then fill up some forms and submit them to the website.
There are 2 important constraints to this-
1. Language/ IDE/library to use for GUI
2. Language like python, perl or php which is rich enough to provide functions/library to login through website, grab some pages, fill some forms and submit it back.
Initially I thought of PHP as the language due to its rich curl library. But if i go ahead with php, i could not figure out how to convert those .php files into a GUI application?
Scripting languages like php, perl, python have good libraries but are poor in GUI development.
Can someone suggest some IDE in which it is not too difficult to build a gui and also has rich library to implement functionalities mention in point 2 above.
I want to develop a GUI application/software that will login to a website with the given username and password and then click on some buttons and go to a new webpage, then fill up some forms and submit them to the website.
There are 2 important constraints to this-
1. Language/ IDE/library to use for GUI
2. Language like python, perl or php which is rich enough to provide functions/library to login through website, grab some pages, fill some forms and submit it back.
Initially I thought of PHP as the language due to its rich curl library. But if i go ahead with php, i could not figure out how to convert those .php files into a GUI application?
Scripting languages like php, perl, python have good libraries but are poor in GUI development.
Can someone suggest some IDE in which it is not too difficult to build a gui and also has rich library to implement functionalities mention in point 2 above.
Oddsen84
I'd go for a Java solution. But what you are talking about is an aplication and PHP can't do that since it's on a server. You could mabye get away with it if you ran a service on the server but I think that would be hard to accomplish. From personal experiense I would say Java or C#.
ASKER
okay.......i undertand that i cannot bundle php to an application. what about python and perl?
I know java but not gud enough to write application in that and i certainly dont know c#.
I know java but not gud enough to write application in that and i certainly dont know c#.
Lets just say if you know Java then it's no problem to learn C#, and I have no great knowledge about Perl or Phyton so I can't help you there. Mabye you know this: "Do Perl and Phyton run server side?". If they do then i dont think thats the way to go either... Mabye ASP. or something.
Mabye you could explain more what you want?
Mabye you could explain more what you want?
ASKER
actually, i want to develop an application which will post my bookmarks to social bookmarking websites like digg.com and others.
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Also I found an example: http://www.faqs.org/docs/gazette/webapp3.html
Don't know if this is quite what you want but it's an intro into sql which you might need :)
Don't know if this is quite what you want but it's an intro into sql which you might need :)
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