Often you will need to display the contents of a file on your server. This article shows you what regular expressions to use to successfully display HTML, including automatically making any hyperlinks live.
This example code demonstrates how to link and display text files within a single document in ASP. Using the title of the text files as hyperlinks, when clicked the file name, the full contents of the document will be displayed. Very useful for making copybooks and file layouts available online.
Initially developed to index ASP pages for a search capability, this article gives you a generic function to walk through your sub-folders using the FileSystemObject. Also discusses recursion and passing functions as parameters.
This article describes how to build a very powerful, potentially destructive application using the File System Object. It should never be implemented in a production environment without ensuring that proper security precautions have been taken to maintain the integrity of the data contained on the web server.
Setting up a simple file downloading system with VBScript and ASP is no sweat. The primary use for a system like this is to allow downloading of any TEXT based file that would normally be served via a client's browser and be unable to be downloaded. A secondary use is to allow download access to directories outside the public server space or a hidden directory within the website. This tutorial shows you how. Full source code available.