ASP and File System Object and copying files and....

[artsapimp]

How can I create a form that will make a new folder named whatever I type in a textbox and copies some files from another location to the new folder? Confusing? Let me try again.

You type "Frank" as the name in a textbox and click continue. The next page creates a folder named "Frank" in a specified directory on the server and copies files from another folder "RootFiles" to the "Frank" folder.

I'm not very good at explaining it, I'm sorry.

Thanks for your help.

[mosquito]

very simple.

in your asp code you use

'create folder   
mkdir "c:\data\" & request("path")
'copy files
filecopy "c:\data\*.*", "c:\data\" & request("path") & "\"

and that should do the trick. make sure that your IUSR_ has permission to do all this stuff.

[artsapimp]

After searching the internet for almost forever I found the FSO commands which make the folders and copy other folders. Is this the right way to do things or is the way you explained a better way?

Fso.CreateFolder(Server.MapPath("users/" & Request.Form("AccountName"))
Fso.CopyFolder Server.MapPath("users/RootFolder"), Server.MapPath("users/" & Request.Form("AccountName"))

That is the basic idea of what I'm doing now.

[mosquito]

Both are good. The method I described uses the integrated functions (classic) from the vb runtime, your method uses the fs object. Both methods work, they just use another approach.