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antamr904
post May 4 2012, 07:54 AM
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hi all,

i am very new to html and any web scripting lang so please be patient with me.

what i am trying to accomplish is:

i have a basic html page with a text box and a search button.

i would like for the user to type a computer name in the text box field then hit search

the search button would:

search a local directory called (inv) for a txt file named %computername%.txt on the web server then display the contents of that txt file in a iframe.

again i am very new to any type of web scripting language, please let me know if this can be accomplished any other way.

thank you in advance!!

here is what i have so far:

<html>
<body>
<center>
<h1>Computer Inventory</h1>
</center>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<h3>Search</h3>
Computer Name:
<br>
<input type="text" name="SearchInv" size="50">
<input id=runbutton class="button" type="button" value="Find" name="run_button" onClick="RunScript">
<br>
<h3>Here is the computers inventory:</h3>
<iframe src="inv/0171afaugno.txt" width="1000" height="500" align="left">



</body>

</html>


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Ephraim F. Moya
post May 4 2012, 10:22 PM
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In php there is an instruction called file_exists( 'filename.and.type' ) which just returns a true or false if the 'fliename.and.type' file exists.

This can be used to implement a search for the desired file.

if( file_exists( '/path/to/inv/file2.txt' ) )
{
perform whatever;
}

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