> Simon Cooke wrote: > > Can we add a "fileinfo.txt" file to every folder? I want to write a quite > > utility which will go through the site, and grab this info from each one, > > building an index on my web pages... > <snippity snip> > > This way, we'd be able to have an online directory of sorts, that I could > > run a bot on every now and then to update it. Only problem is getting people > > to put together the initial index... but if anyone's up to the job, we could > > parcel out tasks for it... > > Couldn't you just do that with some kinda cgi scripty thing. As in, the > directory of the site is displayed using a cgi script which just goes > through and pieces all these things together into a nice structured file > thing?... Its just that would save you from having to bother running a > bot every now and then. Now, as to writing the cgi thing, urmm... Any > volunteers :)....
Erm... isn't that exactly what I am proposing anyway? Except your version would put a lot of load on the server; mine is static and only updated when I run the program on the server. Simon
