Using FSO to get Last Folder Name in URL

hauruapai · March 28th, 2006, 10:48 PM

I am writing a site that I structured like:
mysite.com/yourplaceNAME

YourplaceNAME changes all the time as users set up their pages.

I have a default.asp page that sits in each dir and populates info depending on the directory name - in the above example yourplaceNAME

To get the dir name I have used

Code:

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Path=request.querystring("\")
Set ts=fso.GetFolder(Server.MapPath("\"))
Set folder = fso.GetFolder(Server.Mappath("\"))

Set subFolders = folder.SubFolders
For Each folderObject in SubFolders
strDirectory = folderObject.Name  'make dir name string for db

But it does not get the current dir that I am in eg:
mysite.com/yourplaceNAME
instead it gives a different dir and then the code will either give the wrong info, or no info.

Could someone help me to get the name of the dir that I am in?

Thank you for your time :)

dparsons · March 30th, 2006, 09:05 PM

First look into URL MOD REWRITING, if thats a relatively large website your directory structure will become a nightmare (not to mention a preformance issue). Moving on I am about willing to bet that your Path variable equals "" after you call request.querystring. (if anything it may contain a \) Anyway. I see 2 options here: 1)Request the entire URL into a variable then use string manipulation to find the last occurance of '\' and then a substring function that starts at the index of the '\' + 1 and ends at string.length - string.lastindexof("\") + 1 or 2) setup your url's as mysite.com?dir=yourplacename and then call request.querystring("dir")

Hope this helps.

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hauruapai · April 1st, 2006, 07:55 PM

thank you dparsons - that helped and I now have it working :-)

Thank you once again for your guidence :-))