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    Posted: 23 April 2004 at 11:56am

Hi there,

I'm having a bit of trouble looking for a script to create a txt file in asp.

Basically I am runing a database to update the news feature on my site, but each actually story comes from a text file rarther than a pure line of text in from the database. So what I require is a script which allows me to type a story into a text box and save it to a folder (e.g. http://www.mynewssite.co.uk/stories/) with a unique file name prferably one that is automatically generated using the day's date or something similar. But one where a text box is used to enter the file name would work just aswell.

Any help would be great, cheers guys.

Dave
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Google for 'FSO in classic asp' or try this http://www.asptutorial.info/learn/OpenReadCreate-files.asp
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Thanks for the link...

the only problem I have is each file needs to have a different name. e.g. news_story1.txt news_story2.txt etc...

The one's on those examples all write to a preset file.
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For the code below it will create the file then write to it



<%


thetext="Write this text in the file"

Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")



Set wfile = fs.CreateTextFile("c:\Mydir\myfile.txt",
True)

wfile.Write (thetext)



wfile.close

Set wfile=nothing

Set fs=nothing



response.write("Text created")

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replace "c:\Mydir\myfile.txt" with a variable were you have placed the file name
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Sounds straight forward but is there a line of code that will do this as I don't want to have to be changing that line everytime I want to start a new file.
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make a form field called for example filename and place the value of that into a variable called for example strFileName and Replace "c:\Mydir\myfile.txt" with strFileName

to get the value of a field use Request.Form("fieldname")
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OK so far here's what I have an initial page which contains the form fields filename and story and posts to this page:

<%

Dim strfilename

Dim Story

filename = Request.Form("fieldname")

Story = Request.Form("story")

Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set wfile = fs.CreateTextFile("strfilename", True)

wfile.Write (Story)

wfile.close

Set wfile=nothing

Set fs=nothing

response.write("Text created")

%>

At the moment I'm getting an error saying permission denied probably to the folder I'm trying to add the file to. Can you point me in the way of any other faults. I'm new to asp BTW and really appreciate your help!
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