On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:09:29PM +1000, Jimmy George wrote: > Hello again World
Hi Jimmy, > I am trying - half heartily right now - to get a DDMM or similar date > back from a users server to write to a file when they fill in an order > form. My first attempt of :- > > <!--#config timefmt="%d%b%y"--> > <input type="hidden" name="submit_date" value="<--#echo > var="LOCAL_TIME" -->"> First: SSI is _Server_-Side Includes. That means it's parsed on the server, before it ever gets to the user. Therefore, you can't HTML-escape your SSI directives, because, as far as the server's concerned, ">" has nothing whatsoever to do with "<". And anyway, even though the SSI directive is inside a quoted string, that directive will never reach the user, so it needs no escaping. Second: HTML comments (and therefore SSI directives as well) start with "<!--". Third: I believe the variable you're looking for is "DATE_LOCAL". This version of the above code works OMM (and on my server): <!--#config timefmt="%d%b%y"--> <input type="hidden" name="submit_date" value="<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->"> Ugly, yes, but it works. If you want a purely > inside the forms shtml page gives an error from the server I check it > on. The rest of the form is OK with this cut out. > > This shtml page calls a cgi script that simply writes the form content > to a secure file on the users website and sends a thank you message. I > have not yet been able to get the server I am hosted from to give me a date!! > > It did take me a week to realise that despite what some books say you DO > have to have shtml on some machines when SSI is being used. I need some > sites to look at for more information I think - or some stupidly simple > piece of cgi that writes today's date to a file when it closes. Try this: <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html> > GOOD beginners work. > > TIA > > JimmyG Hope that helps, -- Michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
