recover data from html form

Adam C. adam at 757.org
Sun Nov 7 14:57:25 EST 2004


Peter Hansen wrote:
> Armand Federico - INFO wrote:
> 
>> How can i recover data from an html module?
>> I have a form that send 3 or 4 text field
>>
>> I wanna to recover this data, to analyse, and process, and insert in 
>> MySQL
>>
>> (mod_python, Mysql4, Apache1.3)
> 
> 
> The question is unclear.  Are you looking for suggestions on
> the process called "web scraping"?  (search the web before
> responding, if that term is unfamiliar to you, please)

I think he's looking for the REQUEST object that mod_python passes in 
containing the GET/POST elements from his text fields.
Check out:
http://www.modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/tut-pub.html
for a quick introduction to using the request object with an HTML form.

--
Adam



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