JS - checking a file update

[Christopher]

Hi all,

Sorry if this is a silly question but I've been having a heck of a hard
time with it and hope somebody here can lend me a hand.

I have a site with a news pages and I'd like the navigation to include a
blinking 'NEW!' when that page has been updated within the last three days.

It works fine for the one page (if you're on the news page, it works great)
but I can't figure out how to check the time/date stamp on a file other
than the one currently loaded ... any help would be greatly appreciated.

c.

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[Erwin Moller]

Re: JS - checking a file update

Christopher wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Sorry if this is a silly question but I've been having a heck of a hard
> time with it and hope somebody here can lend me a hand.
>
> I have a site with a news pages and I'd like the navigation to include a
> blinking 'NEW!' when that page has been updated within the last three
> days.
>
> It works fine for the one page (if you're on the news page, it works
> great) but I can't figure out how to check the time/date stamp on a file
> other than the one currently loaded ... any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> c.
>
> --[/color]

Hi Christopher,

This really would be a lot easier for you if you use serverside scripting
(like PHP).
If that is an option for you: try it.

If that is not an option.... you will have to try a really clumbersome
approach I am afraid, like loading all the possible pages in a hidden
frame, get the modificationdat e, store it in a parentframe, and let JS
query it for each page...
I am not even sure if that will work, and it will be slow for sure.

Please have a look at serverside scripting.
Chances are that your current hostingprovider is offering it already with
your current account.

Hope this helps.

Good luck.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Christopher]

Re: JS - checking a file update

Erwin Moller
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> Christopher wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sorry if this is a silly question but I've been having a heck of a
>> hard time with it and hope somebody here can lend me a hand.
>>
>> I have a site with a news pages and I'd like the navigation to
>> include a blinking 'NEW!' when that page has been updated within the
>> last three days.
>>
>> It works fine for the one page (if you're on the news page, it works
>> great) but I can't figure out how to check the time/date stamp on a
>> file other than the one currently loaded ... any help would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> c.
>>
>> --[/color]
>
> Hi Christopher,
>
> This really would be a lot easier for you if you use serverside
> scripting (like PHP).
> If that is an option for you: try it.
>
> If that is not an option.... you will have to try a really clumbersome
> approach I am afraid, like loading all the possible pages in a hidden
> frame, get the modificationdat e, store it in a parentframe, and let JS
> query it for each page...
> I am not even sure if that will work, and it will be slow for sure.
>
> Please have a look at serverside scripting.
> Chances are that your current hostingprovider is offering it already
> with your current account.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller
>[/color]


Hi Erwin, thanks ... I found a solution in the end, pretty clever really.

I run a check for a cookie on each page ... if the cookie is not present,
I place a cookie with the current URL, and redirect them to the news
page.

The news page updates the value of 'last updated' and redirects them to
the URL stored in a cookie, the whole process takes about a second the
first time people come to the site during a 24 hour period, it's an
intranet so traffic is controlled anyways but without access to PHP or
ASP ... the whole process was a bit of a pain.

THanks for your suggestion.

c.



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