An asp script or PHP script can do just that
We have done that with the Nuonce ASP pkg
Good Luck
Rodrigo O
Xnet
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Dory [mailto:jdory (at mark) nomealaska.org]
Sent: Viernes, 15 de Septiembre de 2006 11:39 a.m.
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:06970] OT: server side includes? Display file name as link
on webpage
I'm wondering if any gurus here could point me towards a resource that I
could learn from to try and accomplish a task at hand. I've been googling,
and yet may find it before I get any replies - but maybe someone knows a
quick method or a good resource.
What I would like to do is have our webpage display the latest file (based
on date in file name or date uploaded) by name as a link on the page. In
other words, our clerk uploads the latest council agenda pdf to a local file
share. Rsync in a cron job checks that directory every hour or so during the
day and keeps a directory in the website updated with latest files from that
file share. Then something - server side includes? - looks at the directory
within the website and displays the name of the latest file there. Has to
show the name because clerks want distinction between special meeting
agendas and regular meetings. Plus I'll have this doing it for meeting
minutes as well as same for the planning commission. I suppose I could set
the webpage to refresh every few minutes if necessary to keep looking for
latest file.
I can't just have the same file name in there (overwrite older file) because
I need to keep older files in directory as archives.
Other option I'm looking at is CMS like joomla (mambo), where the users
could just log in and publish what they want. But that will take a bit
longer to flesh out because of needing multisites or such.
cheers, Jim
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Jim Dory
Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604
http://www.nomealaska.org