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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2007-06-03 12:17:50
subject: Re: Web page help..

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Thanks, that looks like it would work, I'll plug it in later today and give
it a whirl. I think it's vbscript.

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Glenn M.
"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:4662b69e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I've never done ASP so I don't know if this is exactly correct, but
> something like this should do the trick:
>
>  <%
>        set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>
>        path = server.mappath ("/images/covers/")
>        if fso.fileExists (path & "\" & photofile) then
>          %>  alt="">
>                  <%
>        else
>          %>  width=150 alt="">
>                  <%
>        end if
>        %> 
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:46619cd9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> More info.  Here's the whole section of ASP code, I was looking too
>> narrowly, forgetting that the ALT was a TEXT entry to describe missing
>> graphics.  I believe this needs an properly structured else line (just
>> now starting to look at ASP programming, so this is WAY below my pay
>> grade....LOL>.
>>
>> code snippet follows:
>>
>>  <%
>>        set fso = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>>
>>        path = server.mappath ("/images/covers/")
>>        if fso.fileExists (path & "\" & photofile) then
>>        %> > alt="">
>>                  <%
>>        end if
>>        %> 
>>
>>
>> End code snippet.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Glenn M.
>> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
>> news:46619a07$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> I've got a site that I want to  use a place holder graphic when the
>>> requested album cover is not currently available.  The source that pulls
>>> the image is as follows:
>>>
>>> " 
BORDER="0" width=150 alt="">
>>>
>>> What do I put in the alt= are to make the image show up?
>>>
>>> The actual image name and path is:
>>>
>>> /images/covers/CoverNotAvail.jpg.
>>>
>>> For some obtuse reason, it's not working correctly. .
>>>
>>> Thanks. (oh, this is an ASP based site.)
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Glenn M.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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