Dynamic Web Page

[Barry Levine]

Dan,

HTML is not dynamic so you'd need to use something like Javascript. I'm 
not sure, however, if Javascript can do anything outside of its 
sandbox, so to speak (like the hard drive's filesystem).

Barry

On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 18:05 America/Denver, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Subject: Dynamic Web Page (Not really a RR question)
> From: Dan Friedman <dan at clearvisiontech.com>

> Is there a way to have a web page either:
>
> (1) save it's self, so it's user editable fields can be read later?; or
>
> (2) have the web page read a text file and populate it's fields.  Then 
> save
> the user editable fields back to the text file?
>
> If either of these options is possible, how would you go about doing 
> it?
> Or, is there another way to accomplish this task?
>
> Background: my application creates a questioner.  That questioner (or 
> text
> file) is posted to a web site.  A user then answers the questions by 
> typing
> in the form fields.  (Note that this could be a work in progress.  
> Meaning
> that the user could put in some text, then come back the next day and
> continue editing the fields.)  When the user is done, the application 
> would
> then query the web page (or text file) and compile a report.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
> -Dan
>