[dnb198]

Hi,

I'm redesigning the homepage of a website which is supposed to have a box on the front page that displays the title of the latest entry on the website's wordpress hosted blog. I would like the five people who write on the blog to be able to easily manually update what is written in the box whenever they want through a form on a password protected page.

The website is written in ASP, however, I do not have access to the SQL database on the server. Therefore, the text that appears in the box on the homepage is stored in a txt file named blogtitle.txt.

I would like to have a simple form where you could type in a sentence (the title of the latest blog post) and the form would go into blogtitle.txt and replace what had been written previously with the new title. It's important that the form replaces the previous contents of blogtitle.txt rather than simply add to it.

In other words, each time you type a sentence into the form, it does two things:

1. Erases the previous contents of blogtitle.txt
2. Writes the new form data to blogtitle.txt

Is there a very simple way to do this using an ASP script? Keep in mind, I know very little about ASP.

Thanks

[Yeroon]

If the txt file is in the rootfolder, then try something like this:

<% 
 
if(request.Form("SubmitButton")) then
 
  strPathInfo = ("mytextfile.txt") //root path to text file 
  strPhysicalPath = Server.MapPath(strPathInfo) //full file path to text file
 
  Set objFSO = createObject("Scripting.fileSystemObject") //new filesystemobject 
  Set objtext = objFSO.createtextfile(fName, true) //create new text file with the same name
 
  thenewline = Request.form("thenewline") 
  objtext.Write(thenewline) //write contents to new file 
  objtext.Close //done 
end if
%>