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I'm trying to make a little message board with asp, using vbscript, and I can't figure out how to sort the posts from most recent/has most recent replies to oldest/oldest replies.
If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate them! I'm stumped :confused:
edit: I looked for an asp forum, but all I could find was ones for download...stupid me I'll look for a web scripting one...
How are the posts stored ? In a database, each in their own text file, or what?
Each in their own file, named by the time and date they are created...probably not the best way, but it's the only way I can think to do it...I don't know SQL or anything...
Put the list of desired file attributes in an array, then sort that.
But, learn SQL and get yourself connected to a database, it'll be easier in the long run :)
http://beta.experts-exchange.com/Web..._20379176.html
http://beta.experts-exchange.com/Web..._20266213.html
ASP:
ugh.
Thanks Hammer I think I can make something with the links you gave me...
It's a pain to use dates since its formatted like 1/1/2002...i have to use something like
varThisDay = DatePart("d", Date())
Yes I'm sure SQL would be much easier, but I don't think my stupid free host supports it and I don't really plan on making web sites for a living
You might do better by naming your files like:
YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS-XX.txt
That way they're easy to work with, and sometimes the OS will give them to you in the order you want anyway.
(note: XX is something that represents < 1 second, simply to account for two new entries being created in a short time frame)
heh well i will name them yyyymmddhhmmss
actually i have not even been saving them as text files...they just end up without an extension which seems to work fine