I have a web site on a Shared Webhosting platform and use the POST method for uploading a .csv file from from my local "c:\data\... " type folder to the web.

However, after uploading is successful I want to be able to add a record with the word "LOADED" back into the local file from within the php program.

Anybody know how this could be done?

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Cheers Ray

No. PHP is a server-side language -- it can't modify ANY files (save for cookies) on the client machine.

What you ask is a tall order, by the way -- can you imagine the security risks if a website could modify files on a user's computer? Isn't that what javascript and activeX viruses do???


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Thanks Nik, thats what I thought.

Perhaps I could create a cookie on the local PC which would indicate that the upoload has taken place, then access this locally.

Any idea how to access a cookie locally

Ray

do you mean like you set the cookie server-side and then the pc it was set on looks at the cookie, or do you want to look at the cookie server-side again?

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Your first option - set cookie from server-side onto local PC., then lookup cookie, hopefully using VBA in MS Access.

Cheers Ray