Write a text area to a file

[caconner]

Ok, this should be a simple question for anyone other than a beginner like me...

I'm trying to write the contents of a textarea to a file. I have the code to write to the file, I just can't figure out how to pass the content/value of the text area to a variable, then to the file on a button click. My knowledge of forms is extremely limited, so I'm not sure what method and/or action to use in conjunction with this.

TIA.

<form action=&quot;&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; name=&quot;UpdateACOE&quot;>

<textarea name=&quot;txtUpdateACOE&quot; cols=&quot;60&quot; rows=&quot;20&quot;></textarea>

<input name=&quot;save&quot; type=&quot;button&quot; id =&quot;save&quot; value=&quot;Save&quot;>

sub save_onclick
dim Str
Str = request(&quot;txtUpdateACOE&quot

dim objFSO
set objFSO = Server.CreateObject(&quot;Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot
if objFSO.FileExists (&quot;acoe.txt&quot then
dim objTextStream
set objTextStream = objFSO.OpenTextFile (&quot;acoe.txt&quot;, 2)
objTextStream.write str
objTextStream.Close
set objTextStream = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
end if
end sub
</script>
</form>

 

[palbano]

<input name=&quot;save&quot; type=&quot;button&quot; id =&quot;save&quot; value=&quot;Save&quot;>

change that to:

<input name=&quot;save&quot; type=&quot;[red]submit[/red]&quot; id =&quot;save&quot; value=&quot;Save&quot;>


-pete

 

[DreXor]

the way you had it written was to run client side which you cant do with fso, modify the code as palbano suggested and make the code run server side.

 

[DreXor]

of course this will require changing out sub_onclick etc, ( well technically since asp doesn't quite recognise 'onclick' ) you can leave the name alone, but for the sake of confusion you should rename it to exporttext or something

also remove the script tags and replace them with <% and %> and convert the code more