Re: Javascript write with an include file using .shtml...

At 19:00 06/01/02 -0500, Michael Boyer wrote:
>// document.write("'#429AFC' id='day" + days + "' height='90' 
>valign='top'><b>" + days + "<\/b><BR><!--#include file='test" + days + 
>".txt' --><\/td>");
>days++; // Increment the day of the month counter.
>
>I thought this would result in 'test1.txt' in cell data 1, 'test2.txt' in 
>cell data 2, and so on, but I get the error:
>
>"[an error occurred while processing this directive]" in the cell data. 
>I've tried putting the quotations in different places, but to no avail--in 
>fact it crashed my browser at one change.

All server side includes are done on the server; all JavaScript (in this 
case) is done on the browser.

Basically, what this boils down to is the server only sees

<!--#include file='test" + days + ".txt' -->

as a server side include, which isn't valid, so you get the error message 
embedded in the document.write.

The browser then receives

document.write("'#429AFC' id='day" + days + "' height='90' 
valign='top'><b>" + days + "<\/b><BR>[an error occurred while processing 
this directive]<\/td>")

which is obviously not what you want.

One solution might be

<script type="text/javascript">

<!--#include file='javascript.stuff'-->

//[start of javascript loop]

// document.write("'#429AFC' id='day" + days + "' height='90' 
valign='top'><b>" + days + "<\/b><BR>" + stuff[days] + "<\/td>");
days++; // Increment the day of the month counter.

//[end of javascript loop ]

</script>

The file javascript.stuff should contain a JavaScript array of all the 
required text

For example, if days could be 1 2 or 3, javascript.stuff would be:

// Start of file
var stuff = new Array();
stuff[1] = "day one text";
stuff[2] = "day two text";
stuff[3] = "day three text";

// end of file

The above is pretty sketchy, but it is 1AM over here :-)

Andrew

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