Automatically login to Eircom stats site
Ok, so it’s pretty annoying having to login to the eircom site each time you want to check your usage. I figured there must be an easier way. What I needed to do was automatically submit the login form and go me to the stats page, quite simple really! There’s two parts, the login form and the onload event that tells the browser to submit the form when the page has loaded.
Just replace the opening body tag with this:
<body onload="window.document.stats.submit()">
And put this inside the body tags:
<form method="POST" name="stats" action="http://broadbandsupport.eircom.net/stats.asp">
<input type="hidden" name="username" value="YOUR-PHONE NUMBER" />
<input type="hidden" name="password" value="YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER" />
</form>
*NOTE: Your phone number must be in the format [areacode-number]
I plan on making an iGoogle gadget for this. I will also try and support other ISPs. I must also put my PHP skils to the test and try to dynamically generate the html and let users download the complete html file for use with their account.
STAY TUNED!
UPDATE: Here is the full html document. Just right-click and “save target as”. You’ll then need to open the file in notepad to enter your phone number and account number.
About Me
Just a quick post to tell you a little bit about me and the type of content you should expect to find on this blog as it grows.
My name is Conor Hackett and i’m currently studying Computer Science in Griffith College Dublin. I am one week into third year of this course and I have loved every bit of it so far except for the odd bit of Math/Repeat Exam related stress!
At the moment my main interests are in anything computer related. I’m loving Web Development right now using CodeIgniter with PHP and MySQL, I would consider myself to be more of a backend, behind the scenes developer as apposed to a designer. I really don’t have a good eye for colour etc and I hate using CSS becuase of the whole area of browser cross compatibility..! Saying all of that, I would really like to take a course in pure web design and photoshop some day and change all that!
On the software programming side of things I have been using Java for the last two years in college but this year I will be learning Visual Basic.NET. Not too happy about that as I would prefer C# but maybe i’ll try learn that on my own alongside VB. To date I haven’t made any GUI programs, it has been all on the console unfortunately but this year should change all that with the use of VB!
Thats really it for the moment, hopefully if I am disciplined and post here regularly thats what you should find yourself reading about if you do decide to come back.
P.S. Some time in the near fututre I will maintain a proper “About” page and keep it up to date as this post will become outdated very quickly(Hopefully!)
