need help with making a script

[XGangstaX]

right i want to write a script.
i want it to be able to look at a site, locate certain numbers, and if certain numbers are identified, then it fills in a number of my choice into a field and then press accept

so using example

a page has numbers changing from 1-100,000 every second right, and when number 340 is shown i want the scritp to fill in 5000 into a field and press accept

how can i write a script like that

please help me....
thanks alot everyone

[sde]

do you have any experience with php ? i could help you out with the logic on how to do this, but would you be able to code it?

you could accomplish this with a mix of php and running the script at a set interval with your operating system. ( linux cron job, windows scheduled task )

forgive me if i'm wrong, but i'm assuming you haven't used php before. this is a great place to get help if you are devoted to learning, but any programming language is going to take the desire to learn in which the effort will definately not be worth learning for 1 script that simulates you checking a web page while you are not there.

the logic would be something like this.

- read the page into a variable.
- locate the number by finding a common string to the left and right of it
- check for the number
- if the number matches, then use php's curl library to submit the data back to the site