Method to populate data in a form

[dschnell]

Hello All~I am looking for a method to take data from a local app and automatically populate a web form when I want to instead of always manually entering the data. Right now I have to add the same data to a local app and then retyped it into a web based form. Norton Passwrd Manager utilizes the same capabilities I am looking to implement.Here is an excerpt from their user manual and I have personnally used this."Fill in forms with Norton Password ManagerYou can use Norton Password Manager to automaticallyfill in Web forms and Windows programs with yourprivate information. You can also use Norton PasswordManager to select the data that you want to fill inmanually."I would like to figure out how to automatically add data to a form like they are doing.BTW: the web page the form resides on is not one of our hosted pages, it is served by a different compny.Any help greatly appreciated.Thanks,Don

[Skemcin]

you will need a server side scripting language (php, asp, cold fusion) to perform this task. you will have to get norton to create a URL with all the form parameters passed in a URL string. that string could then be parsed by your web page which in turn takes the approriate values and assigns them to the respective form values.this assumes that the Password Manager program you speak of is able to dynamically create the URL that you would need.

[dschnell]

Thanks Skemcin, but I was only using Norton Password Mgr as an example that it can and is being done.The other thing is that the web form I need to put my data into is not hosted, nor served by us. It is someone elses web page.I want to take data that I already input into an application which resides on my hard drive and have it populate into the fields of the web page. Norton PW Mgr does this same type of data population into web forms.

you will need a server side scripting language (php, asp, cold fusion) to perform this task.  you will have to get norton to create a URL with all the form parameters passed in a URL string.  that string could then be parsed by your web page which in turn takes the approriate values and assigns them to the respective form values.this assumes that the Password Manager program you speak of is able to dynamically create the URL that you would need.

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