OT:Is this the right forum for HTML help?

[tesco samoa]

nice ruthia sorry i could not help.

so how did it all go ??????

[Ruatha]

I'll install PHP and write me a script in that as it seems easier, good learning possibility

[Fyron]

Well if you want to write it yourself, guess that leaves me off the hook. But if you do want me to, just tell me specifically what you want the script to do.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Well if you want to write it yourself, guess that leaves me off the hook. But if you do want me to, just tell me specifically what you want the script to do.

Ok, I'll let you do the job and then see if I can understand how it works, here goes:

When pressing the link
&#060a href="gamefile"&#062&#060img border=0 width=34 height=34
src="images/getturn.png"&#062Get latest game turn file &#060br&#062&#060/a&#062
it should find the first file in the directory gamefile and initiate a download to the client of that file.

the href="gamefile" ofcourse can be substituted for whatever, it's the icon and text in the link that needs to be preserved.

gamefile is a subdirectory to the server directory which is d:\data\server

Doable?
PHP is installed now and seems to work ok.

[ August 14, 2003, 04:27: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Fyron]

What do you mean by "first file in the directory"? You can sort files in any order you want, so there isn't a first file. Do you mean the file containing the latest turn? That should be fairly easy, just a simple while loop testing each file to see if it has a larger number than the Last.

Also, how are the files named? Do you name them all the same way, but just with a different number in each filename?

[ August 14, 2003, 04:29: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Ruatha]

Hey.
PHP looks much easier than CGI, why didn't I check this out before?

[Fyron]

Dunno. Care to answer my question?