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Nov 16.2005

How do I display the contents of a text file as an HTML page ..?

The text file has an ever changing content as visitors come and go from my website – it is the content of this login page I would like to display as an HTML page..

thanx..

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@The_Little_GuyNov 17.2005 — Are you trying to display a txt file within an HTML file? If so you can't. Try Server side script.
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@kiathauNov 17.2005 — Yape, server side script.

XML/XSLT would be a greate choice.

Try this, http://www.sitepoint.com/article/xmlxslt-driven-website-net

Kiat Hau,

http://webidiot.blogspot.com, Let's build your web site
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@TheBearMayNov 17.2005 — Assuming the text is in a file called login.txt, something like this should work:

...
<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA [*/
function getFile(fileName){
oxmlhttp = null;
try{
oxmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
oxmlhttp.overrideMimeType("text/xml");
}
catch(e){
try{
oxmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
catch(e){
return null;
}
}
if(!oxmlhttp) return null;
try{
oxmlhttp.open("GET",fileName,false);
oxmlhttp.send(null);
}
catch(e){
return null;
}
return oxmlhttp.responseText;
}
/*]]>*/
</script>
</head>

<body>
<div id="oPut"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("oPut").innerHTML=getFile("login.txt");
</script>
...
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@tcurrierDec 09.2005 — This works for me ... but ... it doesn't seem to be recognizing the

carriage control/line feed characters, and the text lines all run together.

alabama

arizona

arkansas

show up as : alabama arizona arkansas

Do you know of a way around this problem ?

Thanks...
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@CharlesDec 09.2005 — <iframe src="file.txt"><a href="file.txt">Text</a></iframe>
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@NogDogDec 09.2005 — If PHP is available on your host it just takes one line of code:
[code=php]
<?php
##### BE SURE TO NAME THIS FILE WITH A .php SUFFIX #####
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV='Content-Type' CONTENT='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>
<title>Include example</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#text {
/* add desired styling for the included text here */
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Include example</h1>
<p id="text">
<?php
echo(nl2br(htmlentities(file_get_contents("/path/to/file.txt"))));
?>
</p>
</body>
</html>
[/code]
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@TheBearMayDec 09.2005 — Could also try changing the div tags to pre...
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@thewebmanDec 09.2005 — pre tags are now deprecated.
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@TheBearMayDec 09.2005 — pre tags are now deprecated.[/QUOTE]
As of ??? I see where the width attribute for <pre> has been deprecated as of HTML 4.01 http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.3.4 but see nothing in it or the XHTML specs that alludes to the element itself being deprecated.
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@tcurrierDec 09.2005 — This works, thanks !

<iframe src="file.txt"><a href="file.txt">Text</a></iframe>

I'm also looking to change the background color of the IFRAME.... I've looked for examples, but none of them seem to work.... Thanks for any help...
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