drop-down menus and asp

[vindictive27]

Is there a way to create a drop-down menu, that will import its items
from a text file? The idea being, that rather than going into the
code and manually updating the drop-down menu properties each time,
the text file can just be replaced and the next time the page is
loaded, the new items will appear correctly?

 

[Mike]

Why not use a database table and update that when a new selection is added?

 

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

Is there a way to create a drop-down menu, that will import its items
from a text file? The idea being, that rather than going into the
code and manually updating the drop-down menu properties each time,
the text file can just be replaced and the next time the page is
loaded, the new items will appear correctly?

Simple answer is yes.

If the text file is structured to resemble a datatable, you can interface
with it using OleDb:
http://www.connectionstrings.com/?carrier=textfile

Alternatively, an XML document is just a text file structured in a
particular way, so you could go down that route...

 

[randy.buchholz]

The XML approach works well.

Simple answer is yes.

If the text file is structured to resemble a datatable, you can interface
with it using OleDb:
http://www.connectionstrings.com/?carrier=textfile

Alternatively, an XML document is just a text file structured in a
particular way, so you could go down that route...