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I was using Spiros Kabasakalis great ajax crud gii template for Yii on a server where PHP is of version 5.1.6. It was giving an error when one creates a new record. Some digging showed that it is because the 5.1.6 version does not include json library which is used in the template code. I installed the json library usein pecl, included ir in php.ini and voila. Meanwhile I have heard o another library upgradephp  which gives PHP 5.3/5.4 special properties to earlier versions of PHP. Now its time to enjoy Kabasakalis' library.

I used to have bash,sed,awk,curl,beautifiul  soup  when I was doing html parsing,scraping and automating tasks. I was aware of mechanize but was not using it. Today I decided to give it a try for an automation task and I didnt regret. It was a real fun(!) learning(!) it. Actually I learned a bit of it. It helped me a lot on automating browser requests. Although I didnt yet use it for form handling, I know it has some magical power there too. I also realised that one must use Beautiful Soup with Mechanize. These make an awesome combo worth trying and using. Thanks to all the folks behind them. here is a snippet br = mechanize.Browser() br.open("http://www.site.com") all_links=[l for l in br.links(url_regex="pattern")] for i in all_links[5:]: br.follow_link(i) temp=br.response().read() soup=BeautifulSoup(temp)                                             ...