----------------------------------- Acid Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:11 am HTML Writer ----------------------------------- My friend has a photo album on his web page, and he uses three HTML files for every picture. Every file is similar, but needs to have different picture names, etc. in different spots. Until now he's been going through the files and changing them, but that takes a long time. I want to make a program that creates the file and writes all the necessary code for him when he inputs the picture names, etc.. What's the easiest way to do this? ----------------------------------- wtd Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:07 pm ----------------------------------- Hmmm.... something like PHP or eRuby would work really well. Python or Perl wil make it easy enough as well. Much easier than VB, actually. My Simple Page ----------------------------------- Acid Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:12 pm ----------------------------------- Yeah, and that'd be great if I knew anything but VB :lol: ----------------------------------- wtd Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:05 pm ----------------------------------- [url=http://www.rubycentral.com/book]The Pragmatic Programmers book online. Ruby is exceptionally easy to learn, and eRuby is just Ruby embedded in a text document. ----------------------------------- Acid Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:48 pm ----------------------------------- Thanks man. But if it takes learning a new language, then to hell with it, I'll let my friend keep doing it the way he has been. :lol: ----------------------------------- wtd Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:13 pm ----------------------------------- Well, what if learning the language and learning how to accomplish the task is easier than learning how to do it in VB? ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:18 pm ----------------------------------- lol, wtd - just show poor Acid how to do that in VB :roll: you basically write the same as to any other text file, but you save it as *.html and write your tags in there Open "C:\webpage.html" For Append As 1 Print #1, "Some Title, this could be a variable" Print #1, "this goes on the actual page... some variables, some counters, etc" Print #1, " Close 1 ----------------------------------- wtd Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:50 pm ----------------------------------- Well, actually I'm not familiar with how to do it in VB myself. :-) ----------------------------------- Acid Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:11 am ----------------------------------- Open "C:\webpage.html" For Append As 1 Print #1, "Some Title, this could be a variable" Print #1, "this goes on the actual page... some variables, some counters, etc" Print #1, " Close 1 Yeah, I started it that way, but there are too many quotation marks in the HTML code. You can see how that might be a problem... Well, to someone who's basically clueless, anyway.