POST Data To Form

[Speed]

I was wondering how I would post a username and password into this form:

<form action="/login.php" method="post" name="login">
	<input type="hidden" name="req" value="" />
	<fieldset id="login">
	<legend><img src="/images/key.gif" /> Login to your account</legend>
	<br />
	<div>
	Enter your email address          </div>
	<div>
	<input name="username" type="text" maxlength="64" value="" id="input" autocomplete="off">
	</div>
	<div>
	Password          </div>
	<div>
	<input name="password" type="password" maxlength="40" value="" id="input" autocomplete="off">
	</div>
	<div>
	<input name="loginsubmit" type="submit" value="Login now" id="button">
	</div>
	</fieldset>
	</form>

It has the fields of Username and Password, but how would I manipulate this so my application could fill this in and eventually display the contents in a UIWebView?

I attempted to use ASIHTTPRequest and got nowhere with it. Thanks in advance for any help :/

[RobotWoods]

Have two UITextFields (usr and pwd in the below example) and a button to fire the following:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://yourserver/login.php"];	 
NSString *body = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"username=%@&password=%@",usr.text, pwd.text];
NSMutableURLRequest *mainRequest = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc]initWithURL: url];
[mainRequest setHTTPMethod: @"POST"];
[mainRequest setHTTPBody: [body dataUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSData *returnData = [ NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest: mainRequest returningResponse: nil error: nil];

then turn returnData into whatever form you need to proceed

[Speed]

Thanks so much! NSLog is showing a bunch of HTML and mixed code, how would I be able to combine this into the login.php script and execute the result in a UIWebView? I am attempting to work on it via the mployd.com/login.php page.

[RobotWoods]

I think you have to use the loadHTMLString method but I haven't done that myself, so don't have any advice.

If it were your script, you could have it output a success/error code and display accordingly.

[Speed]

Would there be a way to login like this? For example, if I send the login details like that using POST, could I then display the webpage normally and have the user logged in?

[RobotWoods]

Does this work for you (swapped last line):

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://yourserver/login.php"];	 
NSString *body = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"username=%@&password=%@",usr.text, pwd.text];
NSMutableURLRequest *mainRequest = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc]initWithURL: url];
[mainRequest setHTTPMethod: @"POST"];
[mainRequest setHTTPBody: [body dataUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[yourUIWebView loadRequest: mainRequest];

It should work in some cases, but I don't know if it can handle things like cookies

[Speed]

I had previously tried adding the web-view with the request and it had still shown me logged out. Luckily, I was able to implement a search function using URL manipulation. Do you know any ways that I could pull data from a webpage? For example, pull some data from this webpage (Job Search for cook - Looking for cook Jobs - cook Jobs) and display the headers such as COOK and CAMP COOK. For example, add the links to an array and then save the paths of the links so someone could just tap on it and it would take them to that page in a webview. I am about to conduct an intensive series of google searches on this but I just thought I should ask ahead.

EDIT: Hypothetically, this is the code that displays the data. The bolded parts are what I would like to pull:

<div id="search_title"><a href="/job.php?id=12008" target="_top">CAMP COOK</a></div>
						<div id="search_company"><a href="/company/2011" title="Pinnacle Profile and Jobs">Pinnacle</a> - 
						Winnipeg, Manitoba, 						
						<a href="/country.php?id=CA">Canada</a>						</div>
<div id="search_desc">Cravings restaurant is looking for both a prep cook as well as a line cook. Available during the week, evenings and weekends. We are located in Stonewall, Manitoba a 15-20 min drive, North of Winnipeg. Experience is required as we are a new restauran...</div>

Hypothetically, I would arrange it inside of a table view. I would have a title, then a description, then the url when the user taps. I was thinking something like this:

webdisplay *searchResults = [[webdisplay alloc] initWithNibName:@"webdisplay" bundle:nil];
	[self.navigationController pushViewController:searchResults animated:YES];
	[searchResults release];
//This would be to swap the views when tapping in the table view, then in the next view's viewDidLoad:

-(void)viewDidLoad {

pulledURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"/job.php?id=1200"]; //I would import the bolded URL piece from above
regularURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://mployd.com"];

NSString *websiteLink = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@"],regularURL,pulledURL];

[website loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:websiteLink]]];
	website.scalesPageToFit = YES;
	[website release];

}

[Speed]

I managed to be able to get the html code from the web-page after loading. How would I manage to isolate some of that code?