Trying To Get File Date

[Pat Flickner]

I'm reading in a bunch of file descriptions with the pathname set up dynamically for the anchor tag. I want to create a column showing "Last Updated" for the files that are read in. How do I do that? All I can find is stuff related to reading in the lastmodified of the document, meaning the HTML document that is being processed at the time. I want to read the file lastmodified date from the file in the pathname in the anchor tag. Ex:

<a href="reports/reference/file.doc">Reference File</a>   Last Updated on May 22, 2006.
...next file
...next file

I have the full path, but I only load the relative path to the file. All I've been able to find is this:

lastmod = document.lastModified;
lastmoddate = Date.parse(lastmod);
if (lastmoddate == 0)
document.writeln("Unknown");
else
document.writeln(lastmod);

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Pat

[Eric Pascarello]

You would have to use server side code since last modified only going to work with the current page and only if the server is set up correclty.

Eric

[Pat Flickner]

Actually, Eric, I just found some code (surprisingly) that seems to work ([URL=from http://www.getelementbyid.com/demo/LastModified/]from http://www.getelementbyid.com/demo/LastModified/[/url]):

<script type="text/javascript">
function getLastMod(){
var myFrm = document.getElementById('myIframe');
var lastModif = new Date(myFrm.contentWindow.document.lastModified);
document.getElementById('LastModified').innerHTML = "Prices correct as at: " + lastModif.toLocaleString();
}
</script>

Then somewhere in the body, here's the elements:

<span id="LastModified"></span>
 
<iframe id="myIframe" o n l o a d="getLastMod()" src="prices.txt" style="display:none;">
</iframe>

Granted, this only works well for IE, but in my workplace, that's all that's allowed. Thanks very much anyway. You're the first person to respond to any of my postings in a week!

The "o n l o a d" is actually one word, but it won't let me post as a single word.

[Pat Flickner]

Wow. don't know why the code looks so small. And the URL surround didn't work right, so here's the uri:

www.getelementbyid.com/demo/LastModified/