Browse for folder from .asp??

[hummer010]

I have an .asp file which creates a text file on the users computer full of data from an ODBC linked database. I currently have a textbox which the user has to enter the full path of the new file into. People are complaining that they wish they could browse folders as well.

What I would like to do is launch a "browse for folders" dialog from the .asp which will update the existing textbox with the folder chosen.

Is this possible??

 

[rac2]

What about the HTML tag <input type=&quot;file&quot;>? This allows browsing the local drive. Of course it sends the selected file on submit.

How did you create a text file on the client computer?

 

[hummer010]

I was wrong about the file creation.

My computer is the server, with the D: Drive shared. There is only one other user who has my d: drive mapped as his d: drive.

It appeared that the files were being created locally, but that was just because both computers have the same d: drive.

If I had actually thought about it, I should have known that an .asp would be creating the file on the server side, not the client side.

 

[rac2]

The FileSystemObject gives you access to the file system on the server. Beginning Active Server Pages 2.0 from WROX has an example in Chapter 11 that displays a directory.

http://www.wrox.com/Books/Book_down.asp?isbn=1861001347