[ibanez270dx]

Hello everyone,
I am going crazy and running in circles trying to get this to work... I need to create a web-based application that can update content (like .pdf's, .txt's, etc...) on client's computers. It should work like so: There will be a link on my company's Intranet for the app, such as an "update now" button. I want this to pop-up a windows-like box (probably java-based?) that asks for the user to input a specific identifying string (in my case a "Tail Number").

I then need the app to search a specific folder on the user's hard drive to see what the contents are and their "date modified" (I was able to make a Java Applet that could read/write files on a user's computer), and compare that info with the contents of a MySQL database and display the titles of the updated or new files to the user and prompt to download. When they click the download button, it would automatically download to that specific directory.

However, I've been fooling around with Java and I'm getting a headache... I haven't used Java much in the past, as I usually use PHP for web apps... but since PHP can't interact with a user's computer, I'm out of luck with that...

If my explanation is kinda unclear (sorry), I made an image of how I'd like this to look / work, located at http://www.loaded-designs.com/images/example.gif in case you can't see it below.



Whatever help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated... Somebody please point me in the right direction!!

Thanks in advance,
- Jeff

[tomdkat]

Is your example a sample of what you have working now? Java is not the same as JavaScript.

Here is a site that explains how to use the "JavaScript prompt", which is what you would use to solicit the user's input.

You might be able to pull this all off with JavaScript but I don't know how to do local file input/output (I/O) with JavaScript.

Peace...