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| antamr904 |
 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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| pandy |
May 4 2012, 08:05 AM
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🌟Computer says no🌟  Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,733 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
A site can't actively search the user's hard drive. If you mean a Browse button, it does just that, lets the use browse his own drive for files to upload. It's created with <input type="file"> .
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/input.html |
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| antamr904 |
May 4 2012, 08:09 AM
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QUOTE(pandy @ May 4 2012, 09:05 AM)  A site can't actively search the user's hard drive. If you mean a Browse button, it does just that, lets the use browse his own drive for files to upload. It's created with <input type="file"> . http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/input.html thank you for your reply. i don't want to search the users hd, i want to search a local directory called (inv) on the iis server then display the contents of the txt file in a iframe. |
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| pandy |
May 4 2012, 12:11 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,733 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
Sorry, I misunderstood.
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antamr904 search directory for a file May 4 2012, 07:54 AM
antamr904 any help will be greatly appreciated.
basically o... May 4 2012, 01:59 PM Christian J Which server-side scripting languages can you use?... May 4 2012, 06:32 PM Ephraim F. Moya In php there is an instruction called file_exists(... May 4 2012, 10:22 PM antamr904 thank you all for your response, but how would i g... May 8 2012, 10:05 AM Christian J See http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.ph... May 8 2012, 01:55 PM antamr904 thanks again all,
one more question
with the - ... May 8 2012, 02:38 PM Christian J You can send a redirect with the PHP header() func... May 8 2012, 05:02 PM
Ephraim F. Moya
You can send a redirect with the PHP header() fun... May 9 2012, 05:32 PM antamr904 great i will try out both options, TY!! May 10 2012, 10:12 AM antamr904 hi all,
how would i perform more then one functi... May 10 2012, 11:34 AM antamr904 ok im stuck,
i want to check if the file name ex... May 10 2012, 02:51 PM Ephraim F. Moya
ok im stuck,
i want to check if the file name e... May 10 2012, 09:49 PM |
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