The mgiGetFileInfo Tag

Tag Behavior

Use the mgiGetFileInfo tag to display information about a file.

The mgiGetFileInfo tag has one required parameter and five optional parameters. The tag form is:

<mgiGetFileInfo info="Type" fileLocation="File Path" 
format="Format" html="HTML" text="String" units="Units">

info - Info is the type of file information to display. Valid info types are:
- creationDate - The creation date of the specified file.
- creationTime - The creation time of the specified file.
- lastModifiedDate - The last modified date of the specified file.
- lastModifiedTime - The last modified date of the specified file.
- size - The size of the specified file.
- exists - Whether the specified file exists. If the file does exist, the value "True" displays. If the file does not exists, the value "False" displays.
- isAFolder - Whether the specified file name is a folder. If the specified name is a folder, the value "True" displays. If the specified name is not a folder, the value "False" displays.

fileLocation - The fileLocation is the relative path to the file to query for information. If the fileLocation parameter is not included, the file information of the page containing the mgiGetFileInfo tag is displayed.
format - The format is the type of date and time information to display. If the creationDate or lastModifiedDate is displayed, then any date format from the mgiDate tag may be used. If the creationTime or lastModifiedTime parameter is displayed, then any time format from the mgiTime tag may be used. The format parameter has no effect if the size is displayed. You may include multiple format parameters in one mgiGetFileInfo tag.
html - The html is the HTML code and text that is decoded and displayed relative to the specified date or time formats. Any HTML in the value of the html parameter should already be encoded (e.g., quotation marks should be entered as """). You may include multiple html parameters in one mgiGetFileInfo tag.
text - The text is the string of characters that is decoded and displayed relative to the specified date or time formats. Text in the value of the text parameter is not decoded prior to display. You may include multiple text parameters in one mgiGetFileInfo tag.
units - The units is the unit of measurement displayed for the file size. The default value is "bytes". Valid units values are:
- b
- bytes
- k
- kilo
- kilobytes
- m
- mega
- megabytes
- g
- giga
- gigabytes
- t
- tera
- terabytes

<mgiGetFileInfo info="size" units="k">

In this example, the size of the HTML file containing this mgiGetFileInfo tag is displayed in kilo-bytes.

<mgiGetFileInfo fileLocation="../contact.html" 
info="lastModifiedDate">

In this example, the last modified date of the "contact.html" file is displayed.