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I want to setup my homepage or just the area that displays news to be able to be changed with just a .txt file. Like I want too drop a file into /serv1/files/web/site/example.txt and then it changes the news on the main page based on that. My site is not hosted locally though, so it would have to look at my home based servers for it. Can I just have like a iframe read the .txt files?
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As far as I know, that kind of setup is only possible with PHP. There might be some way to fenagle it with javascript that reads the text as a source, but its probably more trouble than its worth.
If its just a simple site, I'd say try blogger, and format your news page to match the rest of your site.
Its as simple as inputing your FTP info, building a simple template, and then publishing through blogger. I also like it because anyone with a blogger ID can be added to my community and be allowed to publish news.
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Any server side language that can read the contents of the file can do this quite easily (PHP, ASP, Perl, etc) but you'd need to know a little about the language and it has to be installed on your server.
If you don't want to use a server side language, the text files would need to be XML files (the raw text - example), then you'd have to write an xsl file that formats the data (like CSS - example). Put them together to get a designed XHTML page without any server side languages and you can do some complex formatting if so desired.
Learn XML - http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp
Learn XSL - http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp
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You can do it with javascript (and it's actually really straightforward), but it's slower because of course it doesn't execute until the client's already brought down the rest of the page.
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If your server supports PHP use this single line:
<?php include_once('dir/file.txt'); ?>
- You must open and close the PHP section with <?php and ?> tags.
- To access a directory above the current one, use '../file.txt'.
- The text file can contain HTML formatting, JavaScript, PHP and pretty much anything else.
- You can also use different extentions, like '.html', '.php' or whatever.
Use the include line on your dynamic page. If you build a table or something, you could set it up like this:
<table>
<tr><td>News Header</td></tr>
<tr><td><?php include_once('dir/file.txt'); ?></td></tr>
<table>
And then have your included txt file generage new table rows:
Plain text news entry one. Can include HTML, etc.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Plain text news entry two. And stuff.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Final plain text news entry. Leave table row open.
I bought a book on PHP for $20 about a week ago. I can already build dynamic pages, store data in a MySQL database and XSS your website to hell. Its stupidly easy and, besides the book completely free. Learn PHP.
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I bought a book on PHP for $20 about a week ago. I can already build dynamic pages, store data in a MySQL database and XSS your website to hell. Its stupidly easy and, besides the book completely free. Learn PHP.
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I couldnt get the PHP call to funtion to work.
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Did it return an error, or just not fuction? Your server needs to have PHP installed for this to work. If you got no error message, than PHP probably isn't available where you have your site hosted. On the other hand, if you got any error message (including a blank page - this means the script has halted), there could be something wrong with your scripting.
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Nothing shows. but it does have PHP enabled.
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Posted by Mr. Motts
Any server side language that can read the contents of the file can do this quite easily (PHP, ASP, Perl, etc) but you'd need to know a little about the language and it has to be installed on your server.
If you don't want to use a server side language, the text files would need to be XML files (the raw text - example), then you'd have to write an xsl file that formats the data (like CSS - example). Put them together to get a designed XHTML page without any server side languages and you can do some complex formatting if so desired.
Learn XML - http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp
Learn XSL - http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp
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I was reading down thinking I'd be the only one to think of XML, but you beat me to it. Those links Motts provided are great I taught myself XML and XSL from w3 schools a few months ago and those were really helpful.
On a side note, Urban Eden does exactly this with code very similar to the PHP code given above.
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