Help (Get text from .php website) [solved]

Im trying to make a program that grabs the TRUE or FALSE fom a site and then tells my program which it is and the program will either have a text box or like a different picture.
heres what i have so far.
http://i.imgur.com/qYwW5.png
its just the webbrowser loading the PHP page and showing the text, but i want the program to know which it says (true or false) and then show a certain text box or show a certain picture
thanks

[highlight=vb.net]
Dim useable As Boolean = False
Using wClient As New Net.WebClient()
useable = wClient.DownloadString("http:/

rwebsite").ToLower().Contains("true")
End Using
[/highlight]

Originally Posted by Jason

[highlight=vb.net]
Dim useable As Boolean = False
Using wClient As New Net.WebClient()
useable = wClient.DownloadString("http:/

rwebsite").ToLower().Contains("true")
End Using
[/highlight]

Wow thanks, ill try some thinks

@Jason
how do i use it, its abit confusing

Originally Posted by BassSR

Wow thanks, ill try some thinks

@Jason
how do i use it, its abit confusing

What's confusing? You put the php link in where i put "http:/

rwebsite", the webclient downloads the pagesource from there, checks whether it contains "true". the "useable" variable now tells you whether the page said true or false

[highlight=vb.net]
Dim useable As Boolean = False
Using wClient As New Net.WebClient()
useable = wClient.DownloadString("http:/

rwebsite").ToLower().Contains("true")
End Using
If Not useable Then 'the pagesource didn't contain "true"
MessageBox.Show("This is unuseable")
Else
MessageBox.Show("This is useable!")
End if
[/highlight]

Originally Posted by Jason

What's confusing? You put the php link in where i put "http:/

So you doing like Uni now?
is it for coding still or is that jsut a hobby?
you knew me as apex of ap exh aks :3

your a fucking boss VB coder i swear

Thanks man

Yeah I am doing Uni.

Thread marked solved.

Nice, grats on it
ok when i do it, i want to mkae the images visiable and invisable
whic i did like this:

Code:

  If Not useable Then 'the pagesource didn't contain "true"
            PictureBox1.Visible = True & PictureBox2.Visible = False & PictureBox3.Visible = False
        Else
            PictureBox2.Visible = True & PictureBox1.Visible = False & PictureBox3.Visible = False
        End If

dosnt seem to work tho

Originally Posted by BassSR

Nice, grats on it
ok when i do it, i want to mkae the images visiable and invisable
whic i did like this:

Code:

  If Not useable Then 'the pagesource didn't contain "true"
            PictureBox1.Visible = True & PictureBox2.Visible = False & PictureBox3.Visible = False
        Else
            PictureBox2.Visible = True & PictureBox1.Visible = False & PictureBox3.Visible = False
        End If

dosnt seem to work tho

You can't just link lines together like that

[highlight=vb.net]
PictureBox1.Visible = useable
PictureBox2.Visible = useable
PictureBox3.Visible = useable
[/highlight]

Code:

  Dim useable As Boolean = False
        Using wClient As New Net.WebClient()
            useable = wClient.DownloadString("************").ToLower().Contains("FALSE")
        End Using
        If Not useable Then 'the pagesource didn't contain "true"
            PictureBox1.Visible = True
            PictureBox2.Visible = False
        Else
            PictureBox1.Visible = False
            PictureBox2.Visible = True
        End If

dosnt work.
wont change images on change of the text on the site

Outside link removed. Next time you post one I have to report it.

And the reason it's not working is because that page is broken:

[highlight=php]
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting T_VARIABLE or T_DOLLAR_OPEN_CURLY_BRACES or T_CURLY_OPEN in ***********.php on line 4
[/highlight]

AND BECAUSE you converted the string "ToLower()", then checked if it contained "FALSE" which is in uppercase lol, of course that's going to fail.

Originally Posted by BassSR

Code:

  Dim useable As Boolean = False
        Using wClient As New Net.WebClient()
            useable = wClient.DownloadString("************").ToLower().Contains("FALSE")
        End Using
        If Not useable Then 'the pagesource didn't contain "true"
            PictureBox1.Visible = True
            PictureBox2.Visible = False
        Else
            PictureBox1.Visible = False
            PictureBox2.Visible = True
        End If

dosnt work.
wont change images on change of the text on the site

Because the parsed result of your php doesn't contains the string 'FALSE'.

the only words there are true or false

Originally Posted by BassSR

...
wClient.DownloadString("************").ToLower().Contains("FALSE")
...

I bolded the parts you should pay attention to.

Originally Posted by BassSR

the only words there are true or false

Not when I visited the link: There was a PHP error. Try this and see what happens

[highlight=vb.net]
Using wClient As New Net.WebClient()
MessageBox.Show(wClient.DownloadString("********** **").ToLower())
End Using
[/highlight]

i screwed up but the only text there is either true or false

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