Is it possible to use an external text file for a variable

AdRock · #1 (**permalink**) Sep 14th, 2006, 21:42

I have a vertical scroller that displays current news but as news changes I would like to be able to update it wihtout having to edit the javascript code.

Is it possible to use a plain text file (.txt) to have the news and include that in the code?

Here is how it works at the minute

var marqueecontent='<p class="style2">Current News</p>'

but i would like to incude a file instead of hard coding it

Ryan Fait · #2 (**permalink**) Sep 15th, 2006, 00:34

PHP or ASP is better suited for the job than JavaScript. To acheive the effect in PHP, you need to change the extension from, say, .html to .php. Then create a file with the news in it on your server with the .php extension.

Open up index.php (or whatever the page you want to have the news on is called) and input the following where you want the news to appear:

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<html>

    <body>

        <p>Current News</p>

<?php

include "news.php";

?>

        <p>This is the rest of the document</p>

    </body>

</html>

PHP will treat news.php like an HTML file, so you can put in formatting, images, links, etc.

ukgeoff · #3 (**permalink**) Sep 15th, 2006, 17:25

Is the 'current news', news of your own making, so to speak, or is it coming from a third party.

If it's the latter, look at using an RSS feed and having that update into your page automatically.

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