sending information to other pages.

[Mhtml]

Well, I'm hosted on brinkster for free and they don't offer cdo to free users so I'm trying to work around it by sending the form contents to a text file.

I can do the sending of the form info to the text file but I need to know when there are new messages so this is what I need to do:

1. on my default homepage which is on my harddrive I plan to have an iFrame which opens up a page on my brinkster site.
2. I need that page to check if there are new messages.

I figured that If on the form page I had a script which changed a variable to say NewMessage = Yes then all I'd have to do is access that variable, but how would I store that variable in a place so that I could access it?

[oracleguy]

You could have an additional text file that contained a 'YES' or 'NO'


So when you accessed the file via ASP if it contained 'YES' then there are new messages, if 'NO' then there aren't.

[Roelf]

why not use an application variable??

[whammy]

Why not check the last modified date of the text file against a cookie on your computer?

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtec...110699-1.shtml

[glenngv]

you could write the messages in an XML file so that it's easier to check for new messages. xml could be something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<messages>

<message>
<sender>email@domain.com</sender>
<date>08/14/2002</date>
<text>blah blah</text>
<status>Unread</status>
</message>
<message>
...
</message>

</messages>

just check for status and date to check for new messages.
for saving html data to xml, visit http://www.asp101.com/articles/micha...ml/default.asp

i've used XML for my configuration file I used in my site on brinkster.