[wdvltalk] REPOST SSI REFERENCE

2002-12-09 Thread michael ensor
For the sake of completeness I should have included this reference supplied by Rudy last week: http://websitetips.com/ssi which is a pretty good archive (with abstracts) of a series of ssi articles from a number of sources. [OT] America's Cup - Louis Vuitton Semi Finals: Alinghi 1, Oracle 0; One

[wdvltalk] Re: ASP or PHP

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Joyce
> Multi-OS Use > Multi-Web Server Use ASP is multi-OS/multi-server too you know. > It's Not From Micro$oft. :) Hmm, hardly a reason but I get your smiley :) .b • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP or PHP

2002-12-09 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Ben, > PHP sites have a *much* lower cost of ownership for starters, You got a link to an article about this? It would be *very* useful for $PHB repelling :-) Cheers Jon • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[wdvltalk] Re: ASP or PHP

2002-12-09 Thread Siobhan Thomas
Okay and how easy would it be to migrate an asp site to a php driven one? what would be the hangups? On 9 Dec 2002 at 10:46, John Nichel wrote: Speed Multi-OS Use Multi-Web Server Use Native Support For Numerous Db's Better OO Support (Can You Write OO ASP?) Better Support Easier Integration Wit

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP or PHP

2002-12-09 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Sio, > Why would anyone opt to switch from an asp site to a php one? Would > there be any value? (Jon I'm sure you'll have something to say about > this:). :-) There aren't very many reasons I can see. Both languages offer decent environments for web application development, and the one you

[wdvltalk] Re: ASP or PHP

2002-12-09 Thread John Nichel
Speed Multi-OS Use Multi-Web Server Use Native Support For Numerous Db's Better OO Support (Can You Write OO ASP?) Better Support Easier Integration With Other Technologies It's Not From Micro$oft. :) Siobhan Thomas wrote: Why would anyone opt to switch from an asp site to a php one? Would there

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP or PHP

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Joyce
PHP sites have a *much* lower cost of ownership for starters, not to mention being a more versatile language. It also has a hell of a lot of built-in functionality that you might have to write/buy as components if you were using ASP. If you're a competent ASP coder download and installed PHP (it

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP or VBscript problem

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Joyce
Tim, your method of replying/quoting is truly magnificent :) Comments at the bottom... > Tim (previously): > > You'll need to change the ASP page > > (assuming you've added or removed dynamic content from the > > output page), and you'll have to change the HTML template. > > Ben: > Ahh, well

[wdvltalk] ASP or PHP

2002-12-09 Thread Siobhan Thomas
Why would anyone opt to switch from an asp site to a php one? Would there be any value? (Jon I'm sure you'll have something to say about this:). • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PR

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP or VBscript problem

2002-12-09 Thread Furry, Tim
Tim (previously): > You'll need to change the ASP page > (assuming you've added or removed dynamic content from the > output page), and you'll have to change the HTML template. Ben: Ahh, well yes. For example if you've added/removed some fields from the datasource then you would have to modif

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP FSO

2002-12-09 Thread J.R. Pitts
If you're not sending HTML or text from your file, then what are you expecting to see on your browser window? I suspect your code is working, because if it generated errors, you would see them. If nothing else, throw in a response.write("Done") for testing purposes. J.R. -Original Mess

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP FSO

2002-12-09 Thread Adam Cork
No, I'm just running the asp, there's no HTML on the page, but this should run fine, i've run plenty of test pages before that run fine in this way. Cheers, Adam - Original Message - From: "J.R. Pitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 2:02 PM Sub

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP FSO

2002-12-09 Thread J.R. Pitts
You are putting the code below in a standard HTML wrapper, right? You can't just run code and send nothing to the browser. <% your code %> If not, then the browser never knows there is a page. It will sit and wait for HTML markup forever (well, it'll eventually time out.) If you already

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP FSO

2002-12-09 Thread Adam Cork
No, nothing, sits there loading the page, the blue bar slowly crawls across the bottom of the screen but never gets anywhere. Checked the server, no file is created. Cheers, Adam - Original Message - From: "Ben Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 09,

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP FSO

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Joyce
And nothing happens? No error? .b > -Original Message- > From: Adam Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 09 December 2002 13:54 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: ASP FSO > > > Line feeds gone missing: > > Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") > Set

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP FSO

2002-12-09 Thread Adam Blair
Line feeds gone missing: Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set a = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\test.txt", True) a.WriteLine("This is a test.") a.Close Adam -Original Message- From: Adam Cork [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 December 2002 13:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP FSO

2002-12-09 Thread Adam Cork
OK, would have made sence, Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set a = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\test.txt", True) a.WriteLine("This is a test.") a.Close straight from the help file. Running Win2K, IIS Cheers, Adam - Original Message - From: "J.R. Pitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[wdvltalk] RE: ASP FSO

2002-12-09 Thread J.R. Pitts
Probably is something simple. But how are we to know? *post your code!* J.R. -Original Message- From: Adam Cork [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 7:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] ASP FSO Hi list, Recently there was some

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from th e SS I gurus?

2002-12-09 Thread Trusz, Andrew
08:00 is about right for office coffee time in the States. I start reading the list about 06:30 so it would be early coffee for me. -Original Message- From: michael ensor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: [OT}

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from th e SS I gurus?

2002-12-09 Thread michael ensor
??? afterlunch coffee I would have thought, its 8.14ET right now, lol Visiting Wellington? Visit http://www.WellingtonLive.co.nz - Original Message - From: "Trusz, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 2:07 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weeke

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from th e SS I gurus?

2002-12-09 Thread Trusz, Andrew
Thanks. I'll look. Between your 12 hours and mine, it will be tuesday morning eastern time in the States and that will be fine with morning coffee. -Original Message- From: michael ensor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wd

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from th e SS I gurus?

2002-12-09 Thread michael ensor
Naah, I assumed that was what you meant, but if you want to see a working example in the meantime I have it in a few pages on my site check this one which has a simple horizontal nav bar : http://www.wnc.quik.co.nz/edc/sports/index.shtml and then choose either the information or recreation sectio

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from th e SS I gurus?

2002-12-09 Thread michael ensor
Kay, its 1.27 am Tuesday morning here, if you can hold on for another 12 hours or so I will put together a coherent and hopefully succinct summary of what I have done, but just to tease you it involves using extended SSI, setting your own variables, and employing css to format the output. Pretty s

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from th e SS I gurus?

2002-12-09 Thread Trusz, Andrew
I should be a little more precise than that. How about a couple of pages of code which demonstrate points 1,2, and 3? Including, of course, the include code. In other words, enoug so we can see how it works on a page. -Original Message- From: Trusz, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from th e SS I gurus?

2002-12-09 Thread Trusz, Andrew
Points 1,2, and 3. -Original Message- From: michael ensor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from the SS I gurus? Andrew, which part are you interested in? [ note it is no

[wdvltalk] ASP FSO

2002-12-09 Thread Adam Cork
Hi list, Recently there was some mention of the FileSystemObject. I'm trying to run a script to create a file, i've just taken the example code from the help file to create a text file and write a single line out to it, just to get it working, but when i run the page all it does is sit there loadi

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from the SS I gurus?

2002-12-09 Thread michael ensor
Andrew, which part are you interested in? [ note it is not a single format solution ] - Original Message - From: "Trusz, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:43 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from the SS I

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from the SS I gurus?

2002-12-09 Thread Trusz, Andrew
This would be really interesting code to see. Any chance of a sample? drew -Original Message- From: michael ensor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] [OT} Weekend dabbling SSI any thoughts from the SSI gurus? So fa

[wdvltalk] Re: Site Check Please -

2002-12-09 Thread Hugh Blair
> -Original Message- > From: sherry young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I do have voice mail. That way I miss nothing. I have a dial > up connection and live on the internet so people can at least > have some hope of getting ahold of me. I prefer an answering > machine but they all di

[wdvltalk] RE: WAS [OT} Weekend dabbling NOW php

2002-12-09 Thread michael ensor
Jon, if you have read the earlier threads today (southern hemisphere time) I am way behind with every thing yes well for a mad moment I imagined that php had some magic that the normal 'form input>cgi file>template file> output file' circuit didn't. btw earlier thread today : typo3 I really w

[wdvltalk] RE: WAS [OT} Weekend dabbling NOW php

2002-12-09 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Michael, > Neat, just for fun I also loaded > and thought you didn't do php justice, its SSI with attitude and more. Good, isn't it? :-) > One comment, I couldn't get the form input to save? Well, there wasn't any code to save it we can go there if you want, though Cheers Jon