I saved a file (userinfo.txt) with the following info: - First Name - Last Name - Address - Country - e-mail
If I want to retrieve that info to populate a form is the following way correct? 1. Get the contents by using the FILEREAD 2. Split the contents by using the linefeed/return as a delimiter and populate an array 3. Populate the form
Is there other ways to do this? I didn't found any example in this forum with step-by-step info on how to retrieve info from a file and populate a form with several fields.
Thanks, Carlos
Posted on: 8:44 am on January 26, 2003
Alaska
Carlos -
Send me an address, I'll send you a demo.
Such a deal, yes?
best - roger rnilsson@copperfieldpub.com
(Edited by Alaska at 3:22 pm on Jan. 26, 2003)
Posted on: 12:21 pm on January 26, 2003
KC
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(Edited by KC at 3:23 am on June 8, 2003)
Posted on: 1:51 pm on January 26, 2003
NymRod
This is the info I'm looking for, to bad it's not here. (
Posted on: 5:15 am on March 27, 2003
KC
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(Edited by KC at 3:22 am on June 8, 2003)
Posted on: 9:29 am on March 27, 2003
NymRod
So the readfile.as is going to be like a remote JS file?
That looks like a lot of work. I have 3 forms with a total of 290 form elements including text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons and drop-down menus.
Will that save the status of checkboxes, radio buttons and the drop-down menu selections?
I've been using a form saver cookie to save the data, it works fine until the amount of data being saved exceeds the limits of the cookie string then it no longer repopulates the fields.
Maybe I should start a new topic to explain about what I'm attempting to do.
Thanks
NymRod
Posted on: 10:45 am on March 27, 2003
KC
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(Edited by KC at 3:23 am on June 8, 2003)
Posted on: 11:38 am on March 27, 2003
april thunder
Hi there! I've got this same problem. I've been trying to use the FILEREAD command, but I can't seem to get it to grab information from multiple lines in the same file. The instructions in the Activ Compiler's help file are pretty good, but they don't exactly show how these commands are supposed to work together.
(For example, in the FILEWRITE command, it show's this particular command's syntax, but nowhere does it say in the Help file that you need the RETURN and LINEFEED commands to help you to go down to the next lower line. While RETURN and LINEFEED are discussed individually, they aren't shown in conjunction with FILEWRITE.
I'm using Sunil's FILEWRITE example code to write the info to a file, and I'm now trying to do the reverse: Reading this data back into Activ variables, and repopulating the orginal data fields. (I've pasted the FILEWRITE code below this message).
<BR><BR> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE=" OK "> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML>
writefile.as
REM next line necessary for 4.20 (see note in README) SET('bok',0)
REM retrieve fields from form in Activ Variables of same name FSET('fname','fname') FSET('faddress1','faddress1') FSET('faddress2','faddress2') FSET('fcity','fcity') FSET('fstate','fstate') FSET('fzip','fzip')
REM build a long string of the text SET('longstr','{fname}{return}{linefeed}') SET('longstr','{longstr}{faddress1}{return}{linefeed}') SET('longstr','{longstr}{faddress2}{return}{linefeed}') SET('longstr','{longstr}{fcity}{return}{linefeed}') SET('longstr','{longstr}{fstate}{return}{linefeed}') SET('longstr','{longstr}{fzip}{return}{linefeed}')
REM prompt for file name FILESAVEPROMPT('bsave','filepath','Save Address Info','','') IF({bsave}) FILEWRITE('bok','{filepath}','{longstr}') MESSAGEBOX('bok is {bok}') IF({bok}) MESSAGEBOX('File saved okay') ELSE MESSAGEBOX('File save error') ENDIF ELSE MESSAGEBOX('The address was not saved') ENDIF ---------------------------------------------------------------
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