Hi,
I would like to know if it is possible to use JavaScript to write to a text file. I tried using FileSystemObject in JavaScript. However, it gives the following error : "Automation server can't create object". Does anyone know what is going wrong here?
To give an overview of what I am trying to achieve here. There are 2 parts I need to do.
1) enable users read information from an XML file offline. I managed to user JavaScript to read
and display the necessary informatiom (for example : a quiz).
2) read quiz result from the page and write to a text file. Upon going online, there shall be a
function to read the result from the text file and update it into our DB.
2nd part is an issue to me now. If you think this is not feasible, could anyone suggest any other
ways to work around this?
Attached is the code for the 2nd portion :
==========================
function WriteToFile() {
try {
var fso, s;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.F
s = fso.CreateFolder("C:\\test
s.writeline("This is a test");
s.Close();
}
catch(err){
var strErr = 'Error:';
strErr += '\nNumber:' + err.number;
strErr += '\nDescription:' + err.description;
document.write(strErr);
}
Thanks a lot....
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This worked for me :
function WriteToFile() {
try {
var fso, s;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.F
s = fso.OpenTextFile("C:\\test
s.writeline("This is a test");
s.Close();
}
catch(err){
var strErr = 'Error:';
strErr += '\nNumber:' + err.number;
strErr += '\nDescription:' + err.description;
document.write(strErr);
}
}
But I think it will only work on Intranet.
as avner posted his solution will work.
mine is very similar but gives you a feedback if the file was succesfully
created /written or not.
Nushi.
<html><head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
var password='theirpassword';
var name='username';
function WriteToFile() {
var filename = 'c://temp.txt';
var fso = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.F
if (fso.FileExists(filename))
var a, ForAppending, file;
ForAppending = 8;
file = fso.OpenTextFile(filename,
file.WriteLine(name);
file.WriteLine(password);
}
else {
var file = fso.CreateTextFile(filenam
file.WriteLine(password);
file.WriteLine(name);
}
file.Close();
}
function ReadIt() {
var filename = 'c://temp.txt';
if (confirm('Do you want to see what we put on your computer?')) {
var fso, a, ForReading;
ForReading = 1;
fso = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.F
file = fso.OpenTextFile(filename,
var name = file.readline();
var password = file.readline();
file.Close();
document.write(name + '<br>');
document.write(password);
}
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body onload='WriteToFile();Read
</body>
</html>
hi to all,
another important question.
how to validate a html input file using javascript having errors like multiple slashes
from my program(\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
please help as soon as possible.
Nushi, your code below does not work on either my pc or my department pc. I tried to add some alerts into the code to find out where the problem is. i found that code after "var fso = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.F
<html><head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
var password='theirpassword';
var name='username';
function WriteToFile() {
var filename = 'c://temp.txt';
var fso = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.F
if (fso.FileExists(filename))
var a, ForAppending, file;
ForAppending = 8;
file = fso.OpenTextFile(filename,
file.WriteLine(name);
file.WriteLine(password);
}
else {
var file = fso.CreateTextFile(filenam
file.WriteLine(password);
file.WriteLine(name);
}
file.Close();
}
function ReadIt() {
var filename = 'c://temp.txt';
if (confirm('Do you want to see what we put on your computer?')) {
var fso, a, ForReading;
ForReading = 1;
fso = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.F
file = fso.OpenTextFile(filename,
var name = file.readline();
var password = file.readline();
file.Close();
document.write(name + '<br>');
document.write(password);
}
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body onload='WriteToFile();Read
</body>
</html>
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by: ZeroPagePosted on 2003-12-30 at 01:28:15ID: 10015187
That page where the use is working offline is a html page stored on users disk, right?
Rename that page file extesnsion from .htm to .hta and it will work.
Good luck,
ZeroPage