Save ASP output as html file

sickpuppy · Oct 2, 2003

Hi
I am returning a recordset showing job details and need to save this as an html file for further processing.

I understand that I need to use FSO and all works fine with plain text but not when trying to incorporate text dynamically created from the returned recordset.

Anyone tried this before?

shaddow · Oct 2, 2003

Well you just need to make an ASP page that displays the right html format of your recordset and then use instead of
Response.Write just concatenate strings. and final step it's to create file and save the variable to a file.

str="<html>"
str=str&"<body>"
'now put your table data here
str=str&" put your table data here"
...

set fso=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot

set f=fs

penTextFile("mypage.htm&quot

f.Write str

this should be the steps.

Tell us what you need help with

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George, M

sickpuppy · Oct 3, 2003

this is confusing me mightily. Does this mean I start with usual page definitions and then

<%
str="<html>"
str=str&"<body>"
str=str&"<table>"

str=str&"<tr><tr>

but then what? how do I incorporate the live data without using " ?

shaddow · Oct 3, 2003

Ok we might misunderstood each other what do you want to acomplish? You want to pass something to another page? or just to save the response to an static html file?

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George, M

sickpuppy · Oct 3, 2003

I am trying to save a set of customer order details, generated via recordset & asp page, into a static html page that is saved on the server.

I can use the following after defining recordset:

<%
Dim objFileSystem
Dim MyFile
Set objFileSystem = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot

Set MyFile = objFileSystem.CreateTextFile("f:\test\NewlyCreatedFile.html", True)

MyFile.WriteLine "<HTML>"
MyFile.WriteLine "<HEAD>"
MyFile.WriteLine "<TITLE>Creating an HTML file...</TITLE>"
MyFile.WriteLine "</HEAD>"
MyFile.WriteLine "<BODY>"

However, I am struggling on how to incorporate the dynamic elements within the static html tags.

Hope this is clearer

shaddow · Oct 3, 2003

Ah now i got it, it should be verry easy...
You make your own tags like ##name here## and save it as a html template for the files.
Then you read the files replace the tags and then save the file as it should be(dont save over the template file) or just output to the browser.
I use this if i want to send an email.
I have a template file with ##subject##... etc tags and then i just replace those tags and send the email.
If i want to change the desight i just change the template file.

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George, M

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