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Ever want to know how to display the contents of a text document using ASP. Here is a easy way to read from a text file <!--Start of ASP Code----> <% 'by James Seymour, http://jamesdot.org Dim write Dim fileSysObj, tf, read ' Read the read.txt ' Store the file name where the Information is stored into a variable called read read = "read.txt" ' Retrieve the fullpath of the read file read = LEFT(Server.Mappath(Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")), InStrRev(Server.Mappath (Request.ServerVariables("PATH_INFO")), "")) & read ' Create an instance of FileSystem Object and store it into a variable called fileSysObj Set fileSysObj = createObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") ' Check whether the read file exists IF (fileSysObj.FileExists(read)) Then ' if the file exists, then open it for reading Set tf = filesysobj.OpenTextFile(read, 1) read = tf.ReadLine tf.Close ELSE ' if you can't find read.text, display default message read = "I can't find the file read.txt! So this is my default message." END IF %> ' table the displays the read.txt file <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" width="40%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#EEEECC"><B><%=read%></B> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <!-- End of the ASP --> use the code above, click and drag your mouse over the code to highlight it. Then right click on the highlighted code and click "Copy." Now you may paste it into your code editor. |