hotcut — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:28:01 +0000

Yea, that I know...
I used to define all my variables, but it just kept happen that I degined them twice, and not even the "on error resume next" would take care of that for me!
I got annoyed, and stopped dimming them.

Mark Hensler — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 17:09:21 +0000

If you use Option Explicit (at the top of the code), then you'll only be able to use dimmed variables. If you try to use a variable that was not dimmed, the program/script will error out. This helps prevent mispelling of variables.

good habits

Abhishek Reddy — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:42:25 +0000

hi again,

im not sure, but i think that previous versions of asp required you to dim all variables.

as far as dimming goes, it is really really good programming habit. i know it sounds like extra unnecessary work, but its a good idea to do it.
it tells you about the variables in the following code and even what type they are. eg: dimming a variable as an integer tells you that it is an integer. it helps you read and understand code better.

imagine if you posted some code on the forums or someone else reads your code, it would be hard for them to understand exactly what does what.. if you dimmed the vars, it makes it more readable to someone whos not particularly familiar with that piece of code.

it also helps you debug and keep track of vars in code that can sometime span 100's of lines.

and thats that.

hotcut — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:26:46 +0000

I finally found the error!
Peter, you said I should use
fso.write = "..."
But I should have used
fso.write "..."

Now it works perfectly!

Thank you all very much!

Abhishek , You were also right that I needed to stop using filesystemobject as a variable. That screwed it up as well.

You said that I should dim my variables... Can you explain me why? I never do that... Don't know the difference (I only do it when I use arrays).

Thanks
Vasper

a few points

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:04:56 +0000

hi hotcut,

avoid naming your filesystemobject varialble as "FileSystemObject". try naming it something like objFSO.
use set objFile = ........ . always use SET when assigning methods/objects to a variable. but never use set when assigning values.
check that your host supports FileSystemObject.
make sure your path to the file is correct.
last point: for more readable programming, always set variables for any methods/string. eg: instead of using ...OpenTextFile(server.mappath("breesy.txt")), set a variable to varFile = server.mappath("breesy.txt"), and use ...OpenTextFile(varFile). always dim variables too. i suppose you didn't post it but u dimmed your vars?

i hope it helped

hotcut — Sat, 07 Jul 2001 15:34:17 +0000

hmmmm... seems simple, and I wish it was...

Unfortunetly I am getting the same reason as before:

The object doesn't support this method: 'objFile'

I have not idea what that means...
It clears the file perfectly, but that is all! It doesn't write ANYTHING in that file!

Can you help?

Thanks
~casper

Peter J. Boettcher — Sat, 07 Jul 2001 15:10:05 +0000

If you're just doing a bulk write (not line by line) then you don't need to use the textstream method. Try this:

Set FileSystemObject = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

objFile = FileSystemObject.OpenTextFile(server.mappath("breesy.txt"), 2, True)

objFile.Write = request.form("html")
objFile.Close

Set FileSystemObject = Nothing

Make sure the breesy.txt file exists and that it has write permissions.

hotcut — Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:15:08 +0000

Ok, As I weren't able to upload the files as I wanted, I was though able to use some of all this...

Now the problem is very simple.
I just need to make a file the content of what is posted by a form!
That should be simple!

But it wont work

Set FileSystemObject = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") 

objFile = FileSystemObject.OpenTextFile(server.mappath("breesy.txt")) 

objTextStream = objFile.OpenAsTextStream 

objTextStream.writeline = request.form("html")
objTextStream.Close 

Set FileSystemObject = Nothing 

it is ages ago since I used files to do anything... I once created a questbook this way, but changed it to a database...

There will only be one single line, which should be the content of the form posted.
However, when I try it, the following error come:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01b6'

Object doesn't support this property or method

/breesy_forumbanner.asp, line 3

can someone help me?

Sorry fopr bothering you.

~Casper

cds — Thu, 28 Jun 2001 21:56:02 +0000

Not sure if you are still looking for info on this subject, but company I work for does a full system inventory of all their computers worldwide on a weekly basis. It is done via the login script (NT) calling a batch file which runs a program called netcensus or at least it used to and then dumping the obtained info into a database.

This might be what you are looking for:

http://www.tallysys.com/

To see a sample report that I just had done on my own computer with their webcensus version, check this one out:

http://101usedvideogames.com/webcensus.html

hotcut — Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:31:59 +0000

hi,

Thanks once again.

I would like to put it in a cookie, but that aint enough unfortunetly...

The problem is that the user downloads some sounds, images and a lot of other things, which I need to know if he has on his computer, and if it is the right version. Therefore I need to check the directory where the files are in, to see if the version.html contains the latest verion-information; if the user has the current files.
Thats why I would need to run this all on the fly without the user knowing.

I will see what I can do, if you give me a working URL for that site It tells that the site doesn't work when I click it.

Thanks
~casper

PS: yea you know a lot