Using php

[Shari]

>Shari,
>
>If you control the php script, you can always return simple HTML 
>than will render using a field's htmlText property, and display that.
>You can also just search for the name in the HTML.
>
>HTH,
>Brian
>
>>The .php script can dynamically insert a person's name onto a web 
>>page, to personally thank them or whatever.  But for my Metacard 
>>script to go to that web page and check to make sure the name is 
>>there, fails.  When you "get" an URL, what you are getting is the 
>>raw HTML, not the finished page the surfer sees.

Brian,

I tried that last night, using a real web page on my site.  The php 
script replaces a dummy word with the desired one, and the page you 
see has the newly inserted word.  When I retrieved the page from 
Metacard, it retrieved the raw HTML with the dummy word, not the web 
page it produced with the newly inserted word.  Same problem I had 
with CGI.

Am I missing something?

I need to be able to "get" what is displayed, not the raw HTML behind 
it.  Barring that, the only solution would be to have a text file or 
HTML page that is actually updated, not temporarily for one view, but 
permanently.

Shari
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