On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:15 -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: > I have a form with probably 100+ elements from input, checkbox, select > boxes, textareas, etc. It's extremely tedious to fill these in all the time > and submit while developing/testing. > > Anyone know of a plugin to Firefox (or IE for that matter) that will fill in > the fields, select stuff, check stuff, etc. with some modicum of > predictability. Random text only goes so far when debugging as you don't > necessarily know what the field SHOULD contain. > > It seems the auto-fill-in plugins I found so far are designed for the > average user and do mostly, name, email, password, address, etc... Stuff the > average user would fill in often. > > My form is nothing like that. It's for submitting incidents, and I'm sure > I'm not the only one who makes forms that aren't just user registration or > product order forms. > > I found this bookmarklet which is close, but as you see by my comment there, > it isn't all that useful. > http://www.phpied.com/form-auto-fill-bookmarklet/#comment-71802 > > ---- > <http://daevid.com/> Daevid Vincent Says: November > <http://www.phpied.com/form-auto-fill-bookmarklet/#comment-71802> 18th, 2009 > at 10:41 pm > > This is awesome, however I would like it to be a bit more "predictable". > Could you make it so that any text fields (input,textarea,etc) are the > _name_ of the tag. so if I have: > > <input size="30" name="serial_number" type="text" value=""> > > Then your script would put the string "serial_number" or "Serial Number" or > something in the text box. This way, in debugging, I know what to expect in > that $_POST['serial_number'] value. > > Couldn't you just fill it in once, and then let your browser remember it for you? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
