Can text in a .txt file be displayed on a webpage?
John Anderson
I'm wanting to make it so that the text on my web page is stored on a text
file on the Server so that when people access the website the browser reads
the text from the file and places it in the correct place on the Website. I
want to do this so that if I want to edit the text, all I have to do is edit
the information in the file and it automatically updates on the website.
This means I don't have to search through all the HTML to find the bit of
text I wish to edit. It also means that I'm less likely to edit the HTML by
mistake and screw the page up.
It's a bit like how you put a picture on to a website, except with text.
Can it be done, and if so, how?
Many thanks.
Adrienne Boswell
<john.an...@yahoo.co.uk> writing in
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No, text files, type .txt will be parsed by the browser as text.
What you're after is server side includes, SSI. How you use them
depends on what you have available on the server. If you have PHP
available, you could do something like:
<body>
<?php include "menu_inc.php" ?>
<div id="content">
...
</div>
<?php include "footer_inc.php" ?>
If you have SSI, you could do:
<body>
<!-- #include = "menu_inc.inc"-->
and you would name your page page.shtml
Find out what is available on the server, then Google for SSI.
--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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John Anderson
support either.
Any other way of doing it?
Cheers.
"Adrienne Boswell" <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Adrienne Boswell
@fe34.usenetserver.com:
> I'm wanting to do it on an eBay Template I'm making, and eBay doesn't
> support either.
>
> Any other way of doing it?
>
> Cheers.
Have you tried renaming the text file to something like "myfile.inc"?