Re: [isfile] ?

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11440
interpreted = N
texte = >>>look under [listfiles] in the context tags of the online ref. It is used >>>for doing a complete directory not just a specific file unless you render >>>the folder ahead of time which is how we plan to use it. > >Until we get some new tags for file-existence checking, you can >'pre-render' the contents of a folder into a database so at least you >don't have to type new files in from memory. > >Here is some WebDNA that 'renders' all the online docs into a single >database. You can modify it to look for files of type .gif and just store >their names into a database (don't try to store the contents of a .gif >file into a database field, however -- binary information would make it >unhappy). > > >[closedatabase alldocs.db] > >[writefile alldocs.db]filename contents >[/writefile] > >[listfiles webcatalog/webcatreference] >[filename]
>[showif [filename]^.html][append >alldocs.db]filename=[filename]&contents=[url][include >file=webcatalog/webcatreference/[filename]&raw=T][/url][/append][/showif] >[/listfiles]Hi Grant,I have the following WebDNA working, but there's a problem I cannot seem to resolve. This code is supposed to show the tag only if the file is in the previews folder. That part works fine, but ...when the file name I'm seeking does *not* exist in the previews folder, I want to display a 'noPhotos.gif'. Any ideas how to do this? At first glance I thought of using [showif [FileName]![hls]-01.gif] or [hideif [FileName]=[hls]-01.gif], but that doesn't work in this case like it does most every place else ... because it's inside the [listfiles] context which is a looping context, thus the reason why an alternate solution is required ...[ListFiles previews/] [showif [FileName]=[hls]-01.gif][/showif] [/ListFiles]Sincerely, Ken Grome ..... ken@iav.com http://usarea.net/home.html Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [isfile] ? (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Re: [isfile] ? (Christer Olsson 1997)
  3. Re: [isfile] ? (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  4. Re: [isfile] ? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  5. Re: [isfile] ? (Christer Olsson 1997)
  6. Re: [isfile] ? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  7. Re: [isfile] ? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  8. Re: [isfile] ? (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  9. Re: [isfile] ? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  10. Re: [isfile] ? (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  11. [isfile] ? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
>>>look under [listfiles] in the context tags of the online ref. It is used >>>for doing a complete directory not just a specific file unless you render >>>the folder ahead of time which is how we plan to use it. > >Until we get some new tags for file-existence checking, you can >'pre-render' the contents of a folder into a database so at least you >don't have to type new files in from memory. > >Here is some WebDNA that 'renders' all the online docs into a single >database. You can modify it to look for files of type .gif and just store >their names into a database (don't try to store the contents of a .gif >file into a database field, however -- binary information would make it >unhappy). > > >[closedatabase alldocs.db] > >[writefile alldocs.db]filename contents >[/writefile] > >[listfiles webcatalog/webcatreference] >[filename]
>[showif [filename]^.html][append >alldocs.db]filename=[filename]&contents=[url][include >file=webcatalog/webcatreference/[filename]&raw=T][/url][/append][/showif] >[/listfiles]Hi Grant,I have the following WebDNA working, but there's a problem I cannot seem to resolve. This code is supposed to show the tag only if the file is in the previews folder. That part works fine, but ...when the file name I'm seeking does *not* exist in the previews folder, I want to display a 'noPhotos.gif'. Any ideas how to do this? At first glance I thought of using [showif [FileName]![hls]-01.gif] or [hideif [FileName]=[hls]-01.gif], but that doesn't work in this case like it does most every place else ... because it's inside the [listfiles] context which is a looping context, thus the reason why an alternate solution is required ...[ListFiles previews/] [showif [FileName]=[hls]-01.gif][/showif] [/ListFiles]Sincerely, Ken Grome ..... ken@iav.com http://usarea.net/home.html Kenneth Grome

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