Forum Poster in VB6?

[FarCry3r]

Can we somehow create a forum poster (with login functionality) using VB6? If it is possible, can someone throw a basic example?

Thanks

[Hack]

Welcome to the forums.

What do you mean by "forum poster"?

[FarCry3r]

Welcome to the forums.

What do you mean by "forum poster"?

thanks for the warm welcome

what i mean is an app that can login into a forum, enum the forum's section and can post inside one of those section... is it possible?

I've read this post:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=334645

but it isn't what I'm looking for, but something like that... been squeezing my brain for this one... i'm out of idea...

[techgnome]

I think they mean a standalone application, written in VB6 that would allow the user to post w/o actually having to visit the website..... If the forum owners have exposed an RPC API (sometimes known as XMLRPC depending on how it's implemented), then it might be possible - you would just need to know how to call them. But it all depends if the option has been activated.

-tg

[FarCry3r]

thanks for the reply techgnome, can we, using the sample app in this thread

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=334645

to just post without requiring those APIs? I've seen some commercial apps on the net that do just that, and I'm too poor to buy one, so I think i could create one... of course with help...

[Hack]

I have two Whys?

First Why: Why do you even want to do this? What is the issue with logging onto the forum, and just submitting your posts?

Second Why: Why would you want to use Visual Basic, which is fundamentally a desktop language with some web capabilities, to build an application that interacts with a web site? Wouldn't something like ASP, or PHP or some other web based development platform be more suitable?

[FarCry3r]

I have 2 because:

1st - because I have the need to post one thread to more than one forum at once (i can develop the multiple login myself)

2nd - because of the first "because", and I don't have any knowledges in ASP or PHP :P

[Hack]

1st - because I have the need to post one thread to more than one forum at once (i can develop the multiple login myself)

This sounds like an attempt at spamming. Why do you need to do this?

[FarCry3r]

This sounds like an attempt at spamming. Why do you need to do this?

no, no, it's not for spamming... I'm a portable maker (freeware & legal one) and I do post my portables at more than one forum. I've developed a thread maker app, but it would be nice if i could automate it, no need to open my browser anymore... and... really, no spamming here (and never pun intended)

[Paul M]

Don't know what help this is, but an administrator here, MartinLiss i believe wrote an application that can view the private messages that you have downloaded in XML format.

But wouldn't what your doing really only require some sending of POST and GET messages and quite a bit of parsing?

[FarCry3r]

yes, kinda like that, I tried to figure out what to elements to parse, using GET or POST, but failed... I really have 0 knowledges about parsing those params... any idea to help?

[chemicalNova]

So.. you want help parsing HTML?

Shall we write this application for you.. ?

chem

[psychotomus]

I wroteone before =)

[Hack]

Then post an example.

[FarCry3r]

yes, would like to see a working example... I've setup a test forum for you to test

http://www.projectportables.org/test

let me know if there's a progress, thanks alot

[RobDog888]

Just note that we dont allow the use of something like that on VBF. So if you use it on our Forums your account will be Banned. Other forum sites may or may not have similar policies.

[FarCry3r]

Just note that we dont allow the use of something like that on VBF. So if you use it on our Forums your account will be Banned. Other forum sites may or may not have similar policies.

understood, I'm just learning here... no offense to anyone...