Okay all, I've come across a difficult situation. I want to take a text file that has all the information on a page (not HTML code) and have it display on a Web Page. I've tried tutorials using PHP and JavaScript, but none of them have worked for me. Help is much appreciated.
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Display information from a text file in a HTML document
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I want information in a text file to show up in a Web page. For example, I can just edit the text information and it will change the text on the Web page, without dealing with the XHTML code. It's called a PHP include for the php solution.
^^ So I just place it in the web document? The code I have so far is...
Code:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<title>test</title>
<body>
<?php
include 'testfile.txt';
?>
<!--#include virtual="testfile.txt"-->
</body>
</html>It is saved as a html file. Another question, would I need it to be on a server?
If the file has a .html extension, then the web server needs to be configured to parse .html files for PHP. Also, the server needs to be setup to use SSI for .html files (some do by default). You'll need to run it on a server for both the PHP and SSI to work as they are both server-side languages.
That's probably why it hasn't been able to work. Is there a way I can accomplish the same thing using JavaScript?
You'd have to use AJAX (a JavaScript technique), but it's not as straight forward. Here's a tutorial to get you started. You should look into installing MAMP so you can test server stuff locally though as it's much easier.
I already have WAMP install so I should be able to just use that. ^^ I'll look into it, thanks.
Seriously though, PHP includes are definitely the way to go. If you've got MAMP installed the following code should do juste fine...
PHP:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<title>test</title>
<body>
<?php
include 'testfile.txt';
?>
</body>
</html>