Link or forms?

[pkng]

Hi!

I'm writing som ASP-code that stores information i TXT-files. I want to view the content of the TXT-file in another frame.

My question is if it's possible to open the files without using Select tags and submit buttons and instead use links? I guess it will be problem without request.querystring("") to know what I klicked on?

Or is it possible to solve in another way?

Looking forward to get som help!

Thanks

[russell]

all u need is regular html tags:
<a href="yourTextFile.txt" target="frameName">
Click to see text file
</a>

[pkng]

all u need is regular html tags:
<a href="yourTextFile.txt" target="frameName">
Click to see text file
</a>

Thanks for your answer! But it's not that simple! I want to open a ASP-file in another frame by clicking on a simpe <A href> tag link. And when that ASP-file runs it must get information about specials TXT-files like ASP Request.Quearystring() like from a dropdown menu with select tags that has values that could be requested with Request.Quearystring() ?? Do you understand my problem?

I don't want to open the TXT files and view them, I just want to open them with a ASP-file and get some information that the ASP file then will show in the frame. And how will the ASP-file know which option that has been made in the other frame? I'm almost certain it's impossible, but I want to try and know! :confused:

Thanks

[russell]

definitely possible. use Scripting.FileSystemObject (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/8b99eead-e2bd-45c6-9660-bbbfeec192f0.asp?frame=true) to read file.

can pass parameter as to which file in the querystring. u can use href tags with target=framename and then parse the querystring in the frame. if u want a select element to do it, need to use a little javascript too.

[Univac]

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[pkng]

definitely possible. use Scripting.FileSystemObject (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/8b99eead-e2bd-45c6-9660-bbbfeec192f0.asp?frame=true) to read file.

can pass parameter as to which file in the querystring. u can use href tags with target=framename and then parse the querystring in the frame. if u want a select element to do it, need to use a little javascript too.

Do you have some example or link where i can find it?

[russell]

ok, here's a simple example. i gave u a link already to the Scripting.FileSystemObject documentation.

suppose you have 3 text files named TextFile1.txt, textFile2.txt, etc..

Here is the main html page. i used an iframe, but u could use a frameset as well.

<ul>
<li><a href="processFile.asp?f=1" target=frame2>Text File 1</a></li>
<li><a href="processFile.asp?f=2" target=frame2>Text File 2</a></li>
<li><a href="processFile.asp?f=3" target=frame2>Text File 3</a></li>
</ul>

<iframe name=frame2></iframe>

now u are passing a querystring param, which we'll check in the target frame and load the appropriate file. So the code in processFile.asp might look like this

<%
Dim fl
Dim fileToRead

fl = Request.QueryString("fl")

If Len(fl) Then
fileToRead = "TextFile" & fl & ".txt"
ReadFile fileToRead
End If

Sub ReadFile(f)
Dim fso
Dim tst
Dim strFileContents

Set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set tst = fso.OpenTextFile(f, 1, false)

strFileContents = tst.readAll

tst.close
Set tst = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
End Sub
%>
all this does is loads the contents of the file into a variable -- strFileContents. you will have to parse out whatever specific information you are looking for in the file. FSO also allows u to view/modify metadata -- things like attributes, modified date, etc.

[pkng]

Thanks russel!

Now we are on the right track! I think the example in red below is what I'm looking for! I know almost all about scripting file objects, and I looked at the pages in the link you gave me. But this is what I was looking for and how to "grab" in the ASP processing file.

I guess there is no problem to put this code into a ASP file and put som VBscript code in between the lines like ....<a href="processFile.asp?<=%value%>" Target.....

<li><a href="processFile.asp?f=1" target=frame2>Text File 1</a></li>

I'm going to test this later this week. Thanks! :)