This thread is for discussions of Uploading Files with ASP.

How is the cFormItem datatype defined???

cFormItem is the class module listed here

should i register the dll?

My webbased application using ASP needs to open an existing word document at the client side . Also i need to send some information from the database to this document. Everything must be done with ASP.
I have tried to create an instance of the word application using the CreatObject("Word.Application"). This doesnt work and instead it says, Active X component cannot create object. But when i see in the task manager window, i can actually see the instance of the word created. My browser is IE5.5 SP2.
Is there any other method of invoking Word. Please suggest

Yes, using regsvr32.exe. If you are getting a 'permission denied' error, you need to check that you gave IUSR_COMPUTERNAME  the rights to access the DLL, as described here

You can't open a client-side document using ASP; that would be paramount to giving your script access to each visitors PC....!! When you use Server.CreateObject, it's creating a word object on your server, not the visitors pc... so you won't be able to open their documents.

Apologies for the basic nature of my comment. Does this answer mean that you can open a server based Word document using ASP? How can I use Server.CreateObject so that my web application opens a word template sitting on the same server and transfer text from one asp page to this document. We are using ASP 2.0/SQL7.0/IE3.X to 5.5 and Word97/2000.

Here is a snippet of the code for uploadcomplete.asp:

   Else
       'add description to the database?
       'cConn.Execute ("INSERT INTO mydocs (FileName,Description) VALUES ('" & objUpload.Form("thefile").Value & "','" & objUpload.Form("description").Value
       strMsg = "The file was successfully uploaded."
   End If

Look at the part 'cConn.Execute ("INSERT...  You will notice there is no closing parentheses for this one I just quoted.  That don't seem right?

Here is the error I have gotten:

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript compilation (0x800A0400)
Expected statement
/uploaddemo/uploadcomplete.asp, line 10
("ASPUploadComponent.cUpload")

I don't think your asp is written correctly.  Think?

Further more where exactly is this dll that we made supposed to go?  In C:\Inetpub\scripts?  And shouldn't the IUSR_MachineName be given read and execute in the entire folder not just on a file in that folder?

Back to the drawing board.

Fixed the first error but now I get this one:

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A01B6)
Object doesn't support this property or method: 'FileExists'
/uploaddemo/uploadcomplete.asp, line 18


This comes from:

If objUpload.FileExists("theFile") = False Then
   Response.Write "Invalid Post Data"
   Response.End

Thank you man.  sorry for he trouble.  It works Marvelous.

It is uploading just fine.  But in the confirmation I am just getting

<%=objUpload.Form("thefile").Value%>
<%=objUpload.Form("thefile").FileSize%>
<%=objUpload.Form("thefile").ContentType%>
<%=objUpload.Form("description").Value%>


No

<p><%strMsg%><P>

This does not seem to be called:

Description
   Else
       'add description to the database?
       'cConn.Execute ("INSERT INTO mydocs (FileName,Description) VALUES ('" & objUpload.Form("thefile").Value & "','" & objUpload.Form("description").Value
       strMsg = "The file was successfully uploaded."
   End If

I have disabled caching.  Do you think that's an issue?

<%
Option Explicit
'Don't cache the page
Response.AddHeader "Pragma", "No-Cache"
Response.CacheControl = "Private"
%>

In upload.asp

George Hester

<%=strMsg%>
not
<%strMsg%>
George Hester

OK... I've got a few things to respond to then... ;-)

-> No closed parentheses <-
You are correct.... I didn't get a syntax error as I had commented the item out... it was just to give the reader an idea of what else they could do. I have corrected that.

-> Folder Permissions <-
There were actually 2 sets of permissions that you needed to set. One was described on page 2, telling you to set Write permissions for the upload directory. The other was on page 7, telling you to give IUSR_MACHINENAME the rights to execute the DLL

-> Object doesn't support this property or method: 'FileExists' <-
That was a typo on your side... ;-) It should have been FieldExists

Regards,

James