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Cody · August 10th, 2002, 10:33 PM

I have a website that is on my HD that I use FrontPage to upload.

I was wondering if there was a way to make a program/script/whatever (frankly I don't care... I can probably get ahold of any compiler needed) so I could simply type a date, time and a text file that the program would format with some pre set tags and insert underneath a set line in the HTML file.

It would be really cool if I could even have it automatically enter the date and time.

I'm basically looking for suggestions. If someone knows of a program already made to do this, or a tutorial on building a program to do it, I would be glad to learn and <ATTEMPT> to create the program myself

Thanks in advance

Cody

crouse · August 11th, 2002, 02:39 AM

Online ????

You might check Matt's Script Archive..... he has a perl program for a Guestbook that you might be able to hack if you wanted this to work online....as a user submits a entry.......the html page is updated in a certain spot....(right next to two plus symbols ) (++)

Offline ????

NoteTabLight(free) or NoteTabPro($20) <--Excellent program BTW .... available at www.notetab.com have "clipbooks" that you can program to do pretty much what your asking (i think) .. to a HTML file.... you might check out the free version .......worth looking into.... clipbooks are COOL

~~~ for windows only.......

Don't know if that helps at all........... but hope so.

Cody · August 11th, 2002, 07:18 PM

Any links to Matt's Script Archive?

Cody

Cody · August 11th, 2002, 07:19 PM

Oop n/m found it

Cody

strangerstill · August 11th, 2002, 07:23 PM

I use php to list the last modified time on all my pages:

PHP Code:

 
This page last modified: <?php echo date ("F d Y H:i:s", getlastmod()) . " GMT+BST"; ?>

Cody · August 11th, 2002, 07:32 PM

I'm downloading that notetab program right now.

Will give it a try

Cody

Cody · August 11th, 2002, 07:43 PM

Alright I'll try and give s'more detail here.

Basically I have a page that (very very simplified) looks like this

Quote:

<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
... a bunch of CSS code for my page ...
</style>
... a bunch of html for background, text, navbar, etc ...

</td>
<td width="50px"><br /></td>
<td valign="top" align="left">

<div class="tbox"><b>monday, august 5, 2002</b> - 6:21 pm </div>
<div class="mbox">

A post

<br>
</div>
<br/>



<div class="tbox"><b>monday, august 5, 2002</b> - 6:21 pm </div>
<div class="mbox">

A post

<br>
</div>
<br/>


... a whole bunch of other stuff ...

Basically I want a script/program/whatever that I can enter the date, time and a journal entry and it will place them in the appropriate place in the HTML code and also format them according to what I have above.

That help any?

Cody

crouse · August 11th, 2002, 08:16 PM

Again........ Matts Guestbook script would do that if you are running it online...... no problem........

http://www.crouse.ws/virtual-linux/guestbook.html

It would be fairly easy to modify Matt's guestbook script........... the above link I modified for the Virtual-Linux.org guestbook. Uses a perl script and one html file to post from and one html file to post to........ pretty straightforward......

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Again.......... notetablight would modify a html page and add all the code you put in a clipbook........ very easily........and you could just ftp the changed page.......

Just 2 different ways of doing the same thing........

Keep us posted and let us know if it worked..........

Cody · August 11th, 2002, 08:17 PM

Well later I will try modding that guestbook proggy...

I can't figure out how to use this notetablight program any differently than Notepad

Cody

crouse · August 11th, 2002, 08:38 PM

Note Tab Light is WAY different than notepad...... so many features it will make your head spin once you catch on too them.

It has been awhile since I used the light version...... but I know it had "clipbooks" available on it. Do you see the bar at the bottom that has html etc on the tabs? If you click on them a bar on the left opens up and you can click on those items..... in the html clipbook if you click on table you are asked how many rows etc ?????? Anyway........ you can make your own and have it ask you for your information and it can automatically post that with whatever predetermined html code you want also........... works great for me if I'm doing some ebay sales...... can create mult pages very fast by creating a clipbook and have it ask for price description etc etc...... keep digging into it..... I think you will love it if you code any by hand. There should be a section on clipbooks on the website www.notetab.com

http://www.notetab.net/html/clipbar.htm Good page here!!

http://www.notetab.com/libraries.htm
http://junior.apk.net/~jbarta/notetab/

Just some good links for clipbar macro programming... it really is easy once you get the hang of it...

HTH's