| getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser [message #180402 is a reply to message #180400] |
Mon, 11 February 2013 02:58   |
Cal Dershowitz
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On 02/10/2013 02:49 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
> Cal Dershowitz, 2013-02-10 09:04:
[x-posted to alt.os.linux.ubuntu]
>> I've been trying to use perl to automate processes that aren't much more
>> than a few GUI events that a person would do if he had a browser.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>> use strict;
>> use autodie;
>> use utf8;
>> use WWW::Mechanize;
>>
>> my $url = 'http://translate.google.com/';
>> my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new;
>> my $result = $mech->get($url);
>> die "GET failedn" unless $result->is_success;
> [...]
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>> Is this something that php can do in a way that involves less grief?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> But if you need to use Google Translate as a service, see here:
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> <https://developers.google.com/translate/>
>
> Well - the service is not for free. Therefore i doubt that using
> <http://translate.google.com/> as a "service" through scripts is legal.
>
>
Thanks for your comments, Arno, I'm just trying to get used to websites
from the point-of-view of machines. I don't want this as a "service"
that I would put on my guinea pig 1and1 website. With all the reading I
did, I do want to use php on my website now.
I think we're all in agreement that php is the wrong tool for what I
wanted to do, but I've always wanted to have more-sophisticated content
on my own site, in particular the ability to host video.
The tutorial I looked at wants me to install XAMPP. Is that the best
idea for getting a php development environment squared away given that this
$ uname -a
Linux fred-desktop 3.2.0-33-generic-pae #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18
16:39:21 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
is my platform? As I look through synaptic for packages that match php,
there might be 2 hundred.
Before I went ahead and fiddled with it, I thought I'd ask to see if
someone has been around the block on this once, which is one more than
me right now.
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Cal
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