thirtywest

Greetings, New to PHP I have a site at work that I log into to find the PDF that has the next month's schedules. I want to set a cron job that monitors the page for when schedules.pdf is uploaded. The cron job part is easy. Obstacles: 1. username and password field at login; 2. the page has a window (frame?) in it with three tabs you can hover and click. that produces the list of PDF files. 3. While I would love to capture the PDF and email it I would settle for just getting an alert that the file is there for viewing. A. I'm comfortable scanning a page for particular text and sending a email/sms to let me know it was found. B. What I don't know how to do is "click" those spots to make the content appear as well as recognize the username / password fields to enter my credentials. I started reading about CURL but I'm not sure if this is appropriate. Any guidance/direction would be helpful.

Greetings, 1st time posting. Quite new with php. I've been managing an SMF forums for about 6 months now. I have a few static pages in wordpress I'd like to make visible only to members. I'm trying to use SSI to validate they're logged in before showing the pages. But, 1. I'm having a tough time of that :), and 2. I can't seem to make it work from inside wordpress, and 3. If i have to build the pages from scratch I don't know if i'll have the features that I'm looking for; and 4. I just need a simple way to prevent folks from entering the URLs directly--only having access from being logged into SMF first. I intend to build a button on the forum menu to take them to this expanded content page. Am I asking too much? ANY guidance would be greatly appreciated.