[ashras99]

Guys, I want to add a news section in the website. But i want that section will be updated through external *.txt file.

Is this possible in html. If yes, then please tell me how to create a news section which update through external text file.

[Rockn]

Flat files are not a good idea and you cannot do it with HTML alone, you need some sort of scripting to parse the text file. Scripting languages likve ASP, PHP, CF, etc.

[ashras99]

There is any free script, component or something which do this for me. Because I dont have a knowledge of ASP, PHP and CF.

[Rockn]

Unless you know any kind of scripting, even CGI, it won't be of much use to you because you will more than likely need to cusomize it to suit your needs.

[ashras99]

But I think there must be any component that can be easily modified by anyone without any scripting knowledge.

[brendandonhu]

In PHP

<?
require('text_file.txt')
?>

[ashras99]

brendandonhu, can you little explain where to place and how, just these three lines or somethign else, How we will get the scroll bar.

[AKA Arizona]

You could also use DHTML and edit a .htm file> I used to run one on web site it would scroll the Dynamic Drive scrolling page http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/index.html

[brendandonhu]

Just use those 3 lines to include the html file. Put it wherever you want the content to be inserted.

[ashras99]

I tried but not working. Can you attach the sample or tell me what i have done wrong.

http://www.mbcindia.com/rough/text.htm

http://mbcindia.com/rough/rough.txt


And more question if text file is loaded but how can we create a specific area and get a scrollbar for that.

[brendandonhu]

You didn't put it in a .php file.
And if you just want it to appear in scrollbars, use an HTML <frame>

[ashras99]

Ok, able to do it. But this is not possible if we able to place in a text box or something, because todays no one likes frame in the webiste.

And how we can change the color and font of the loaded text file.

[namenotfound]

Have you tried using <object> tags to embed the file into the other file?

[namenotfound]

<object type="text/html" data="http://mbcindia.com/rough/rough.txt" width="500" height="200"></object>

you can change the width and height to anything you want

[ashras99]

I tried but horizontal bar is not coming up, I mean text is not wrapping that's why horizontal is not coming up. In this method, it is possible that text will wrap. Please have a look.

http://mbcindia.com/rough/text2.html

There is any way through which we can define the font and size.