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Hello,
I'm very new to web development. Recently I started building my first web application. I'm building a database,..., in php,.... and now I want to display some text in a message box or something.
but,
I can't find any function, class or whatever that creates such a dialog! My frustrations are getting more and more intense!
Does any1 know where to look or know HOW to do this?
thanks.
A student knows little about a lot.
A professor knows a lot about little.
I know everything about nothing.
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Bob, PHP is a server side language. That means it runs on the server and not the client.
What you want is a dialog box on the client side and so you need a client side language.
In this case, use JavaScript, specifically alert("'tators... ... Poh-ta-toe!");.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Brian Welsch wrote:
"blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans.
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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I'm getting a headache right now  Guess that I need to work around something...
Thanks for your answer
A student knows little about a lot.
A professor knows a lot about little.
I know everything about nothing.
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No worries Bob, we all have to start somewhere. Feel free to ask all the questions you need, plenty of others out there in the same situation.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Brian Welsch wrote:
"blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans.
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Like Paul said PHP being a server side language won't intrinsically let you display a dialog box, so you have to use this little work around
<?
$res = mysql_query('SELECT * from myTable');
if(mysql_num_rows($res)==0){
echo '<html>';
echo '<body onLoad="alert(\"There are no records available\");">';
echo '<b>This is a simple web page that displays a dialog box</b>';
echo '</body>';
echo '</html>';
}
else{
echo 'Start generating a more complete web page from database records';
}
?>
The word of the day is legs, let's go back to my house and spread the word 
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Thanks,I guess I'll never stop learning... 
A student knows little about a lot.
A professor knows a lot about little.
I know everything about nothing.
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Within your PHP code you need to invoke a javascript function to display the message box. PHP itself can't generate client message boxes.
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Hello,
Thanks, this function does the trick for me:
<br />
function MessageBox($Message)<br />
{<br />
echo"<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=\"JAVASCRIPT\">window.alert(\"$szMessage\")</SCRIPT>";<br />
}<br />
Let's just pray that the user's browser supports JavaScript
A student knows little about a lot.
A professor knows a lot about little.
I know everything about nothing.
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I have a ASP web form I need to e-mail.
Every time a user fills in the form it must mail the whole web page (or even all of it's details) to a consultant. What would be the best way to do this? I can probably just take all the details off the page and put them into an email and send it via SMTP but it's gonna take a lot of time to do as the form is quite big. It would be easier if I could just send the whole page (and all of it's textboxes and selected combo boxes).
Is it even possible to do it this way or I'm I just being overly optimistic?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks
Nick R
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.
If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a bench has just been painted, he'll have to touch it to be sure.
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From what I know, I think that you are a bit optimistic.
You will have to build the body of the email with all the information.
theJazzyBrain
Wise is he who asks good questions, not he who gives good answers
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The sendmail script will load the email template, replace all of the [$xxx$] keys with the contents from the submitted form, where xxx is the name of the submitted form field. You don't have to use an email template, and if you don't, the script will generate a plain-text email for you. Let me know if anything doesn't seem to function correctly.
<%
'---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'FORM MAIL SCRIPT
'----------------
'usage:
'<form ACTION="sendmail.asp" ...>
'
'hidden fields:
' redirect - the url to redirect to when the mail has been sent (REQUIRED)
' mailto - the email address of the recipient (separate multiple recipients with commas) (REQUIRED)
' cc - the email address of the cc recipient (separate multiple recipients with commas) (OPTIONAL)
' bcc - the email address of the bcc recipient (separate multiple recipients with commas) (OPTIONAL)
' mailfrom - the email address of the sender (REQUIRED)
' subject - the subject line of the email (REQUIRED)
' message - the message to include in the email above the field values. not used when a template is being used. (OPTIONAL)
' template - specifies a text or html file to use as the email template, relative to the location of the sendmail script. (e.g. ../email.txt)
' A template should reference form fields like this: [$Field Name$]
' html - if this has the value "yes", the email will be sent as an html email. only used if a template is supplied.
' testmode - if this is set to "yes", the email contents will be written to the screen instead of being emailed.
'---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
option explicit
function getTextFromFile(path)
dim fso, f, txt
set fso = createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
if not fso.fileexists(path) then
getTextFromFile = ""
exit function
end if
set f = fso.opentextfile(path,1)
if f.atendofstream then txt = "" else txt = f.readall
f.close
set f = nothing
set fso = nothing
getTextFromFile = txt
end function
dim redir, mailto, mailfrom, subject, item, body, cc, bcc, message, html, template, usetemplate, testmode
redir = request.form("redirect")
mailto = request.form("mailto")
cc = request.form("cc")
bcc = request.form("bcc")
mailfrom = request.form("mailfrom")
subject = request.form("subject")
message = request.form("message")
template = request.form("template")
testmode = lcase(request.form("testmode"))="yes"
if len(template) > 0 then template = getTextFromFile(server.mappath(template))
if len(template) > 0 then usetemplate = true else usetemplate = false
dim msg : set msg = server.createobject("CDONTS.NewMail")
if usetemplate and lcase(request.form("html")) = "yes" then
msg.bodyformat = 0 '(html)
msg.mailformat = 0 '(mime)
end if
msg.subject = subject
msg.to = mailto
msg.from = mailfrom
if len(cc) > 0 then msg.cc = cc
if len(bcc) > 0 then msg.bcc = bcc
if not usetemplate then
body = body & message & vbcrlf & vbcrlf
else
body = template
end if
for each item in request.form
select case item
case "redirect", "mailto", "cc", "bcc", "subject", "message", "template", "html", "testmode"
case else
if not usetemplate then
if item <> "mailfrom" then body = body & item & ": " & request.form(item) & vbcrlf & vbcrlf
else
body = replace(body, "[$" & item & "$]", replace(request.form(item),vbcrlf,"<br>"))
end if
end select
next
if usetemplate then 'remove any leftover placeholders
dim rx : set rx = new regexp
rx.pattern = "\[\$.*\$\]"
rx.global = true
body = rx.replace(body, "")
end if
msg.body = body
if testmode then
if lcase(request.form("html")) = "yes" then
response.write "<pre>" & vbcrlf
response.write "Mail to: " & mailto & vbcrlf
response.write "Mail from: " & mailfrom & vbcrlf
if len(cc) > 0 then response.write "Cc: " & cc & vbcrlf
if len(bcc) > 0 then response.write "Bcc: " & bcc & vbcrlf
response.write "Subject: " & subject & vbcrlf & string(80,"-") & "</pre>"
response.write body
else
response.write "<html><head><title>Sendmail.asp Test Mode</title></head><body><pre>" & vbcrlf
response.write "Mail to: " & mailto & vbcrlf
response.write "Mail from: " & mailfrom & vbcrlf
if len(cc) > 0 then response.write "Cc: " & cc & vbcrlf
if len(bcc) > 0 then response.write "Bcc: " & bcc & vbcrlf
response.write "Subject: " & subject & vbcrlf & vbcrlf
response.write string(80,"-") & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & "<span style=""color:blue;"">"
response.write body & "</span>" & vbcrlf & vbcrlf
response.write string(80,"-") & vbcrlf & "**END OF EMAIL**</pre></body></html>"
end if
else
msg.send
response.redirect redir
end if
set msg = nothing
%>
NATHAN RIDLEY
Web Application Developer
generalgherkin@yahoo.com
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That's great thanks! 
I'll give it a go.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.
If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a bench has just been painted, he'll have to touch it to be sure.
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What you want to do is iterate through all the forms on a field, getting their name and value.
An ex-co-worker wrote this handy script which works similarly to the sendmail script the other chap posted. It is ASP.NET but the concepts are similar in ASP.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Brian Welsch wrote:
"blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans.
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Thanks Paul
I'll try it out and see how it goes.
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.
If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a bench has just been painted, he'll have to touch it to be sure.
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What happens when "global.asa" (classical ASP) and "global.asax" (ASP.NET) both resides in the same folder?
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The ASP application will use the .asa file and the ASP.NET application will use the .asax file. They should not interfere with each other as they are different machine processes.
(Honestly I have never tried but if the above is not true and they do interfere, then bad Microsoft, bad! )
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Brian Welsch wrote:
"blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans.
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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But, M$ has been known to be bad =)
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Paul is right though - the two files can co-exist in the same folder, and global.asa will be used for ASP while global.asax will be used for ASP.NET.
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MS is not bad always... it sometimes works fine.
What u said was and 'is' right. It will work simultaneously for corresponding ASP / ASP.NET application.
'IT WORKS' for me!!!
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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How can you enumerate "keys" of an Application object? The following script works, but "i" isn't as descriptive as the actual name of the "key".
For i=1 to Application.Contents.Count
Response.Write(i & ":" & Application.Contents(i) & "<br>")
Next
Thanks!
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For Each key As String In Application.Contents.AllKeys
Trace.WriteLine(Application.Contents(key))
Next
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Can you return a dictionary object from a function written in VBScript? Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
<%
Function PopulateAList()
Dim objList
Set objList=Server.CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
PopulateAList = objList 'Error, having trouble with this.
End Function
%>
<%
Dim objList
objList = PopulateAList()
for each item in objList.items
Response.Write "Hey!"
Next
%>
Thanks.
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Yes, like this:
function x
dim o : set o = createobject("scripting.dictionary")
'do stuff to o
set x = o
end function
dim objlist
set objlist = x()
NATHAN RIDLEY
Web Application Developer
generalgherkin@yahoo.com
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Thanks. My mistake. Got it fixed now.
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