Need to display file Modified Date and Time in HTML ?

Recce · Sep 1, 2003

Hi,

I need to display the file modified date & time of an Excel file in my HTML page. I take it the folowing code should do the trick however, I have no idea how to display this in a label, button or text box. Can anyone tell me if I am on the right track or not. Thanks :->

<script
function ShowFileAccessInfo(filespec)
{
var fso, f, s;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot

;
f = fso.GetFile(filespec);
s = filespec.toUpperCase() + "<br>";
s += "Created: " + f.DateCreated + "<br>";
s += "Last Accessed: " + f.DateLastAccessed + "<br>";
s += "Last Modified: " + f.DateLastModified;
return(s);
}
</script>

VEWebGuy · Sep 9, 2003

This is how you would do if, if that script worked for you.

<body onload=displaydate()>
<form method=post action=page2.asp>
<input type=text name=text value="text">
<input type=submit>
</form>
<input type=text id=filedate>
<script>
function displaydate(){
var strFile
strFile=ShowFileAccessInfo('page1.htm')
filedate.value=strFile
}

I get an error with that object.

VEWebGuy · Sep 9, 2003

Here it is, but because it is ActiveX, you do get a warning.
You might want to do it "server side" with ASP.
<html>

<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="author" content="Van Eerden Distribution">
<meta name="generator" content="AceHTML 5 Pro">
</head>
<body onload=displaydate()>
<p id=moddate></p>
<script>
function displaydate(){
var strFile
strFile=ShowFileAccessInfo('page1.htm')
moddate.innerHTML=strFile
}
function ShowFileAccessInfo(filespec)
{
var fso, f, s;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot

;
f = fso.GetFile(filespec);
s = filespec.toUpperCase() + "<br>";
s += "Created: " + f.DateCreated + "<br>";
s += "Last Accessed: " + f.DateLastAccessed + "<br>";
s += "Last Modified: " + f.DateLastModified;
return(s);
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

Recce · Sep 9, 2003

Hi VEWebGuy,

Thanks, for this.It worked but, yes, the about ActiveX that you spoke about is exactly what I got.Can you briefly explain the difference between server side and client side to me, please.

Thanks

VEWebGuy · Sep 10, 2003

Server Side Means the code runs on an server, in this case a microsoft server, such as IIS or Personal Web Server. the extension asp is what tells IIS to the page has server side code, the <% %>tags are the code that is run on the server.

Code for page1.asp - place in root of

http://wwwroot,

or change server mappath variable.

<?XML version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<title>page1.asp</title>
</head>
<body>
<%
Set MyDirectory=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot

Set MyFiles=MyDirectory.GetFolder(Server.MapPath("/&quot

)
Set s = MyFiles.files("page1.asp&quot

Response.write("Name:" & s.Name & "<br>Created:" & s.DateCreated & s.DateLastAccessed & s.DateLastAccessed)
%>

</body>
</html>

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