Hey everyone. I've been racking my brain on how to do this, as I've got no idea. Recently I started something called the "truth train" on myspace as a way to network all of the political and conspiracy myspace pages that I can. I'm doing this to help network and connect all of the political people on myspace. After a few days of the conception of this, I realize that I need to make a way to automate this list. I want to make a form where people can input their friendID (which is a unique identifier of a persons myspace profile) and their myspace name. When they hit the submit button, I'd like for their data to be appended to a database of links, in this format:

<A href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=XXX ">AAA
</A>

xxx would be the friendID that they entered in the form, and AAA would be there name.

Couple of questions
1) What kind of scripting language would I need to use?
2) What kind of database program should I use?
3) How the hell do I do this?

Thanks everyone.

I realize that this is a really big request.

Here's what I'd do:

PHP/MySQL

<?php
(your db connection & query here)

$myspaceurl = "http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=";
?>

<?
(php code to display results on query) {
?>
<A href="<?=$myspaceurl?><?=$row['friendid']?>"><?=$row['friendid']?>
</A>
<?
}
?>

Ok, I'm a total newbie when it comes to this stuff.

Originally Posted by bld44

Here's what I'd do:

PHP/MySQL

<?php
(your db connection & query here) What is this, can you give me an example.

$myspaceurl = "http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=";
?>

<?
(php code to display results on query) { <---- Huh?
?>
<A href="<?=$myspaceurl?><?=$row['friendid']?>"><?=$row['friendid']?>
</A>
<?
}
?>

Is it possible that you could write up a script for me?
Also, to use php and mysql what exactly do I need. Do I just need someone with a website, or are there any extra programs?

Thanks alot.

First, you need to know about PHP and mySQL. If you want, get some books.

Get it here!

Well this bit here

<A href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=XXX ">AAA
</A>

(added bolding)
Means that it is running on ColdFusion, so forget PHP and MySQL on there

And if this is running on myspace you probably can't do this anyway

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Well this bit here (added bolding)
Means that it is running on ColdFusion, so forget PHP and MySQL on there

And if this is running on myspace you probably can't do this anyway

I'm thinking that I might be able to. I'm going to have a form page on my profile, so it seems like it will run outside of myspace (I'm going to have everything hosted at another site, php scripts, etc.). You know those stupid whore trains, etc. I think those will work on a myspace profile, so this should work the same. Oh wait, I just saw. Do you mean that part with the .cfm means that it is running on coldfusion. Is that a myspace thing. In that case, I might have to do it on my buddies site. In that case I can just set up a link on my profile to an outside site. That ain't no thing.

Thanks

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Well this bit here (added bolding)
Means that it is running on ColdFusion, so forget PHP and MySQL on there

And if this is running on myspace you probably can't do this anyway

Oh, I didn't think he was going to run the site on MySpace. You probably won't be able to do that anyway.

Originally Posted by bld44

Oh, I didn't think he was going to run the site on MySpace. You probably won't be able to do that anyway.

Why wouldn't I be able to do it. If I can't have it on my myspace profile, I'll just have it on an outside website. I don't want this to turn into an ethical, or a "I don't think you'd be able to" debate, as I know it can be done...I just don't know how.

Can someone please help.

Good luck running any dynamic scripts on myspace. I use to do similar things but your basically on the lines of XXS exploiting and border line of there spam policy (which they take very serious). Most XXS/ Javascript codes needed to pull anything including your page with a iframe have long been disabled.

My suggestion for you to run this from you own page/web server. And create a way that it generates a code randomally pulling data from your datbase that Myspace users copy and paste.

Best advise for you 2 do is try this something like this in flash, .

Best regards

Originally Posted by Yatwice

Good luck running any dynamic scripts on myspace. I use to do similar things but your basically on the lines of XXS exploiting and border line of there spam policy (which they take very serious). Most XXS/ Javascript codes needed to pull anything including your page with a iframe have long been disabled.

My suggestion for you to run this from you own page/web server. And create a way that it generates a code randomally pulling data from your datbase that Myspace users copy and paste.

Best advise for you 2 do is try this something like this in flash, .

Best regards

We are running it off a different server. No need to cause any commotion. What do you mean by creating a code that randomly pulls data fromt the database?



"Dammit. I tried to post the code in here, but its to big. If you go to www.myspace.com/emergeunited_movies and scroll down, you will see the submit form that I am going to be working with. There will only be 3 variables that will be used (2 required and one optional). FRIENDID = the persons individual myspace id (34343543 for example), NAME, LOCATION. If you want, I can email the script that we are trying to work with, and see if you can possibly help us.


The format that we need the links to be written to the flat file (either html or txt) is in the following format.

<a href = "http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=invite.addfriend_verify&frien did=FRIENDID">NAME, LOCATION</a><br>

I'm sure that this has to be relatively simple, but I've got no idea how to do this, and when looking at the code, I just way to overwhelmed.

I want to get this thing up and running as quick as possible, as we will be using this to network as many of the political people on myspace that we can find.

If anyone can help me, just hit me up here or send an email to con_brew_and_view@hotmail.com"