>for diectories and sub directories of where your spml page is--but it >seems to work anywhere in the same root directory as I now understand >it--you can climb back up the directory tree and then go down another >branch.
I think both dir_list and include work anyhere within the directory tree. For user web spaces #dir_list="/folder/" will list the contents of "folder" at the users root level, while #dir_list="folder/" will list the contents of "folder" at the same level of the listing page.
>-there seems to be some magic in putting quotes around the dir list >parameter--what is so magic about putting a space betweenthe quote and >the variable when displaying a directory? they have to be in exactly the >right place.
The parameter should be surrounded in quotes, this lets the parser know where the parameter begins and ends. Simple whitespace could have been chosen as a delimeter, but mac file names may contain whitespace, so that's a problem.
>variable, some of the variaqbles become text--sometimes a quote shows up >on thebrowser even if there are an even number of quotes and sometimes a
In the variable list, your constant strings must be quoted. The environment variables should be, but don't need to be quoted.
From your description, I supect there is an extra " floating around.
Do you have an example of the SPML that is producing the problem?
In all SPML is programming. You will encounter problems writing it just like any other code.
