The email is not plugged into the main site
just yet.... putting the wraps on the signup and help pages and expect to
launch it next week.
Mike
Below is the LOADJS.ASP code which I use to
format and send back any standard html file.
NOTE: the ReturnTextFileAsString function is
not included... it does exactly that...opens a textfile, loads it into a
string, closes the text file, and returns the string...
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<%
response.buffer=TRUE
response.expires=0
%>
<!--� Copyright Starphire.commerce 1999, All Rights
Reserved-->
<%
' get the querystring
jsfn=xxxxx.html
htmlfilename =
trim(request.querystring("jsfn"))
if htmlfilename <> ""
then
' confirm that the file exists
before attempting to open and read it
htmlfilepath =
server.mappath("/misc/javascript/" & htmlfilename)
if fileexists(htmlfilepath)
then
response.write "document.writeln(""" &
filterforjavascript(ReturnTextFileAsString(htmlfilepath)) &
""");"
else
response.write "file does not
exist"
end if
end if
' this function replaces CR/LF's with a space
and all double quotes with a single quote
function
filterforjavascript(htmlstr)
filterforjavascript =
replace(replace(htmlstr,VbCrLf," "), """", "'")
end function
%>
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999
10:53 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum]
Includes/ASP in Web Templates
Congratulations. This is very clever, and works
nicely. I also like the website, and spent too much time looking at the
fishing "stuff". I need to go back to look at more. One question, how do
you return to the email screen after you leave it? I also like the changes
to the look and feel of the templates. I would still be interested in
seeing the .ASP that does the loading of the frames.
Mark
If you would like to see the resulting web
templates I have set up a demo account for everyone to use... I will
keep it open for a few days only..
username = demo
password = demo
The Header, SideBar, and Footer on each
page are generated using the Javascript method described below... All we
have to do to change all of them is make one change to the HTML file
which the javascript loads and all the web templates get the new
sidebar.
I would appreciate any feedback or problems
anyone encounters...
Mike Murdock
CIO
FishingLife.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 01,
1999 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum]
Includes/ASP in Web Templates
ASP's are usually pretty small, would
anyone object if he posted it to the list? I would love to see
this. Great innovative thinking Mark! Bravo!
-V
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 01,
1999 9:45 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum]
Includes/ASP in Web Templates
Please post it, I am interested. If you
need to attach and email it directly, please send it to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
Mark
Topic: How to mix ASP and Static Web
Messaging Templates to produce dynamic content in Imail Web
Messaging.
A while back I posted a query on how
to get common HTML included in all the web messaging templates
without having to cut and paste into each one. This has to be a
common problem for anyone doing a serious makeover of the
look-and-feel of the web interface. The problem for us was that we
wanted to include a common header, sidebar, and footer on each
page. These might change from time to time and the prospect of
having to edit the 50 or so web templates each time was giving me
a huge headache.
I tried using the mailwelc.txt file
but it's size limitation and other quirkyness made this
unworkable...
Additionally many of you have been
discussing the desire to use ASP with Imail Web Messaging. While
not the ideal solution (I would much prefer an Object API into the
Imail engine directly) I have come
up with a pretty good solution for doing dynamic includes and
executing ASP within the web templates using
JavaScript..
The solution is to include the
following JavaScript in each web template..
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"
SRC="http://www.yourdomain.com/asp/loadjs.asp?jsfn=top.html"></script>
The loadjs.asp could be any asp you
want to execute that puts out HTML.. The catch is that the
ASP must send back properly formatted Javascript. So all you have
to do is ..
Response.Write
"document.writeln(""<h1>This is the HTML to send
back</h1>"");"
Using this method your ASP can go do
what ever it needs to and send back the results to the browser. It
works great for including dynamic ads, rotating content or any
other common code you want on every template page.
The loadjs.asp script I developed is
designed to take a querystring "jsfn=file.html", load that html,
format it into a proper javascript document.writeln command
and send it back to the browser.
If anyone is interested I would be
happy to post the jsfn.asp code for all to
use...
Mike Murdock
CIO
FishingLife.com
