Displaying file information on my website, please help!

[dadougalee]

I have xml documents on a server that the website is on as well. I need to parse the xml files and display the information on the website. I am using javascript to parse the data, and display it. But my problem is retrieving this data in the first place. I was told javascript cannot deal with ftp, so I think I need to do this from the html code. Does anyone know how to grab files over ftp and display the information on the website? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys!

Doug

 

[Foamcow]

You will need to use a server side scripting language such as PHP, ASP, ColdFustion or PERL.

Do you have any of these technologies available to you on your server?

A quick google or visit to sites such as

http://www.hotscripts.com

should turn up some ready made XML parsers for you in the language of choice.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

If the XML files are on the same web server as your site, you could use frames or iframes, and maybe some XSLT etc to style them?

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[dadougalee]

That is a good idea, but I already know how I want to display the xml information. My real problem is locating the xml file on the server and grabing the information. There are multiple xml documents. The xml documents are located in a subdirectory of the server. I am using Microsoft's IIS. In javascript it works doing this with the FileSystemObject:

var foldedToList = "C://inetpub//ftproot//FTP"

I then have it check that folder for documents, and obviously it only would work on the computer that has this file, but I want it to check a folder on the server. I want to do this:

var foldedToList = "

http://"+window.location.hostname+"/ftp"

and check that folder, but it won't allow me to do this.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Why not create a virtual directory on your web server that points to that local folder?

Then you should be able to access the files via http as well as ftp.

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[dadougalee]

I have this as a virtual directory already, but as you can already mostly likely tell, I am very new to all of this. I can access the files via by typing in the files path on the server in the address bar, but I am unfamiliar how to load them into my website in order to parse the data.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Perhaps you might get more luck asking this question in an IIS forum?

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[ChrisHunt]

You don't need to ftp. Just put the files in a regular directory on your server and access them as you would an HTML file. For example:

http://www.napitalia.org.uk/xml/sagf.xml

(ignore the parsing bug in FF!).

That said, I'd agree with Foamcow that it's better to parse the XML server-side if possible - browsers are too inconsistent in their XML processing abilities to be entirely trusted with the job.

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