renaming a file or overwiting it to another one

[tito]

Hello,

I am publishing a file as file.php but I need it to be file.xml. The format in file.php is already xml. Just the extension needs to be changed.

So I created a file.xml also.

I have a flash ticker.htm that reads from file.xml to display. And I SSI or php include that file somewhere else. File.xml needs to be updated whenever file.php is published.

ticker.htm, file.php and file.xml are all in the same directory.

What can I place in ticker.htm to tell it to look in the current directory for file.php and file.xml and compare the time they were created; if file.php is newer, overwrite all the contents of file.xml?

Thank you very much for any help.

[sarahk]

Hi

your basic problem here is that a *.htm file will only be interpreted once it gets to the browser so server side info (file datestamps) won't be available. I guess you might get the SSI to provide that but I don't know what a SSI can or can't do.

Effectively you need a hidden iframe to hold the datestamp info and javascript to interpret that and set the source for the xml link. Check out the javascript sites anyway.