Getting Content From A Different File

kvarnerexpress

Jan 31 2006, 07:02 PM

Hey,
I think this would be simple to html programmers.. but not to me.
I got a website template to make it easy, and there are boxes at the side that i can just put text in. But what I put in these boxes I want to appear on every page of the site. So by doing that i put a piece of code in telling it to get the text content from an external file. How would I do this? Here is the string at the moment.

Code:

CODE

<TD COLSPAN=3 background="images/image_45.jpg"><div align="center"><font color="#FF8000" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">insert here</font> </div></TD>

rvalkass

Jan 31 2006, 07:38 PM

This can be done very simply in many different programming languages, except for HTML. For some reason there is nothing in HTML that seems to work correctly.

However, in PHP, you can simply use the include() function.

Where you have 'insert here' replace it with:

CODE

<?php include('filename.htm'); ?>

Then, make sure that you save the file with the extension of .php rather than .html

If you have any more problems feel free to email or PM me.

jlhaslip

Jan 31 2006, 07:48 PM

First of all, what sort of info will be in the file and ultimately in the box? How large is the Table cell?
If the 'box' is large enough, it might be a place to use an iframe to insert information, but there may be scrolbar and or viewport size issues that won't be nice.
Sample here.
Other than that, I don't think Html by itself will handle dynamic info.
Use php 'includes' to fill the box with text is an option, too. Simply 'include' a file by name. The server needs to be php enabled for php scripts to run, though.

CODE

<?php include 'filename.txt' ?>

I have a script which requires php enabled to run it and it looks up stuff from flat files.
This Sidebar Generator script looks for files within a specific folder and displays the file names as links.
This Other One reads a list of folder names from a flat file and creates a list of links using the same techniques as above for several folders.
In either case, the list of links is based on the folder contents at the time the script is run. If you want to change a link list, upload/ddelete a file to the various folders.

So it kinda depends on the nature of the content you want to include inside the box, and how 'dynamic' it is.

Sprnknwn

Jan 31 2006, 08:32 PM

I´d do what rvalkass and jlhaslip suggest. I don´t know any way to make it only with html.

But only in case you aren´t familiar with php, notice that you won´t get the result of the includes simply by viewing your website from your HD. You need to have it hosted in a server that understands and execute php scripts, like this (trap17).

jlhaslip

Jan 31 2006, 08:53 PM

The requirement to have files renamed can be avoided by altering your .htaccess file to include a line as per http://www.trap17.com/forums/index.php?sho...ndpost&p=222937

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