Best approach - writing text file

[Rob Meade]

Hi all,

Ok - minor fly in my ointment...

I have an application which was successfully writing data from submitted
forms to a text file in a directory - in this case:

/data/findata.txt

This was fine because the forms lived at the root level with this directory.

Since then I have added enabled the forms to be used on subdirectories :

/subdirectory/myform.asp

I've used the same code for server.mapparth("data") etc - but instead of
locating the directory at the root of the server called "data" it looks to
the current directory- doesn't find it and creates another! eek!

What I need is a way to say "right, it doesnt matter what level you are at
at the moment, always look at the root level /data directory"...

This has to be fairly dynamic - on the development server here its got a
different file structure than on the live server (ie, it lives another level
down again on the physical drive)...

Anyone got a good idea on how to look back up?

I do have one way to test which level they are at - but I feel that its a
bit 'weak' - I have an ID that tells me if they are working on the upper or
lower levels (ie, anything other than 1 is a lower level) - whilst I realise
I could use this in the test I'm not sure if its going to be 100% fool proof
to base this criteria on this ID.

Therefore I was hoping for a better way using the server.mappath etc...

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards

Rob

 

[Martin Honnen]

Hi all,

Ok - minor fly in my ointment...

I have an application which was successfully writing data from submitted
forms to a text file in a directory - in this case:

/data/findata.txt

This was fine because the forms lived at the root level with this directory.

Since then I have added enabled the forms to be used on subdirectories :

/subdirectory/myform.asp

I've used the same code for server.mapparth("data") etc - but instead of
locating the directory at the root of the server called "data" it looks to
the current directory- doesn't find it and creates another! eek!

What I need is a way to say "right, it doesnt matter what level you are at
at the moment, always look at the root level /data directory"...

So you want
Server.MapPath("/data")

 

[Rob Meade]

...

So you want
Server.MapPath("/data")

Hi Martin,

Thanks for your reply - the / looks 'anywhere' then does it?

Incidently - if I had more than one data directory - how would it know which
to return as correct? Or would it just return the last one it finds?

Cheers

Rob

 

[Martin Honnen]

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Hi Martin,

Thanks for your reply - the / looks 'anywhere' then does it?

Incidently - if I had more than one data directory - how would it know which
to return as correct? Or would it just return the last one it finds?

No, / is the root of the virtual server directory structure and
Server.MapPath("/data")
looks for a data directly under the root.

 

[Rob Meade]

...

No, / is the root of the virtual server directory structure and
Server.MapPath("/data")
looks for a data directly under the root.

Hi Martin,

Many thanks for your reply - I will give that a go...

Thanks again,

Rob