Hellow biggest geeks of them all (and I don't mean this in a bad way), Since work is starting to build up in a very rapid way, I am trying to create some small programs to automate my most repetitive handlings. One of these handlings is to post articles to my network of blogs, and I would like to automate these steps. 1: Login 2: click on the "new article" button 3: load and insert title from sql database 4: load and insert article content from sql database 5: Press submit 6: Repeat steps 2 to 5 untill a variable number of articles are submitted. I figured, this cannot be so difficult to automate using a script, so I would like to create one myself. Could anyone give me some advice how to start with this? I have some knowledge about a programming language no one knows (Eiffel) and I know html and css. Off course I would like to pay for someone to give me a head start on this one, my skills are more marketing related than programming... But I would sure like to give it a shot. thnx in advance!
Server side, I would use PHP if it's supported. If you want to do it from your desktop, check out AutoIT. It's a bit to learn at first, but it's extremely powerful. It can automate nearly anything you can do on your desktop. Hope this helps.
Instead of writing a program / script that actually logs in to your blog you should just connect to the blogs database and insert a new row with the article. It would be a lot easier and you wouldn't have to wade through curl code grabbing the page and logging in etc. Assuming that your able to run the script on the same server as the blogs or your database can have remote access.