| Re: getting a php capability on ubuntu was Re: using scripting languages to automate a browser [message #180404 is a reply to message #180402] |
Mon, 11 February 2013 11:39   |
M. Strobel
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Am 11.02.2013 03:58, schrieb Cal Dershowitz:
> On 02/10/2013 02:49 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
>> Cal Dershowitz, 2013-02-10 09:04:
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> [x-posted to alt.os.linux.ubuntu]
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>>> 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;
>> [...]
>>
>>> 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:
>>
>> <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.
Linux/Unix is the native platform for PHP development. Get a decent IDE with syntax
checking, set all encodings to utf-8, start your local web server and there you go.
/Str.
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