DESPARATE!!

[Zaphod64831]

I really need help with something. I need to know how to have someone enter some code on a web page, and that line of code would call and display the text I store somewhere else, say a text file on an FTP server. I will take anything that will do this, but, if possible, I want it to execute the text as if it were HTML.

[Edited by Zaphod64831 on 05-27-2000 at 01:40 AM]

ok, this is a tough one.
I am not the best at javascript.
but I am not the worst.
I am not sure if javascript has file handling capabilities..
and html doesnt really execute.. I mean it just converts commands to colors, etc.
It may be doable with perl, but, with javascript, I will have to look into it.....
tell me your problem, and I will see if there are any other alternatives.

[Zaphod64831]

I am helping my ISP with their descriptions of sites. What they do is give each of their customers a place on their server to make a website, using normal old FTP. When someone has created and posted their site they email the ISP owner and he places a link and description of that site on the ISP's main site. The problem is people are always changing the overall theme of their site and therefore changing the description. The people then email the ISP owner asking him to change their description and it all becomes so hectic that he gets them all mixed up and it doesn't work. What he needs is a piece of code that will call for a specified text file for each person on that person's FTP site and convert the text to HTML to be displayed as the description. You don't need to worry about what the URL is, I just need the code and I can worry about the customization myself.

[noone]

This is something you could do easily with a little bit of server side work. Can your server handle Server Side Includes?

http://www.builder.com/Authoring/MoreStupid/ss04.html?tag=st.cn.sr1.dir.

[Zaphod64831]

I don't know, but let's try anyway.

[Zaphod64831]

Hello? A little help?

[noone]

I've never used Server Side includes myself but this site has a bit of info:
http://www.builder.com/Authoring/MoreStupid/ss04.html?tag=st.cn.sr1.dir.