Displaying a .txt file in a web page...

CannonBallGuy

Oh, my!
Myabe that's why it is not working. Silly me!

Sheesh!
What do you take me for tnt?

CannonBallGuy

I did the <!--#include virtual="/path/to/file/filename.txt" --> thing... but There are still no returns on the shtml page where there were in the .txt...

JayDesigns

Your server must have SSI installed.

CannonBallGuy

Yeah. It does...

It's at art.pavsta.com/layout1.shtml
the text file is at art.pavsta.com/layout1.txt

So you can see that the returns in the .txt are not showing on the .shtml...

Unless it's just me... lol

Python

i just took a look and its showing fine...i like food

CannonBallGuy

On Safari, IE and Shiira (on OSX) the .txt file comes out with no returns... Just one lump of text.

Python

im using winxp and mozilla and it had no returns

CannonBallGuy

So it aint working... And is there NO other way I can try???

tntcheats

What do you take me for tnt?

Do you really want to know :twisted:

I'd say you should just use a very simple CMS.
Like EZarticle. (I think that's the name) watch out for security though.

CannonBallGuy

I think I will just get the client to type it in as a .txt anyway. then copy it into th webpage and just add the <br> 's... lol

tntcheats

Become his webmaster and just charge a small fee for updates.

CannonBallGuy

Yeah... exactly.

JayDesigns

To replace the returns with br tags, use this:

<?php
$file = "textfile.txt";
$do = fopen($file, "r");
$data = fread($do, filesize($file));
fclose($do);
$data_correct = str_replace ("\n","<br>",$data);
echo $data_correct;
?>

Hopefully that will replace the returns with br tags. Let me know if it works.

CannonBallGuy

When I tried that it nothing showed up so I even tried:

<?php
include("layout1.txt");
$file = "layout1.txt";
$do = fopen($file, "r");
$data = fread($do, filesize($file));
fclose($do);
$data_correct = str_replace ("\n","<br>",$data);
echo $data_correct;
?>

But that didn't work either...

JayDesigns

ok cannonballguy, if you send the files to me at jay@jaydesigns.co.uk I'd be happy to do it for you, free of charge

CannonBallGuy

Why can't you just tell me how to do it?
If you want to test it then you can just make your own .txt file... lol...
The .txt file I am trying to get to show in the html page just says "I love Food!" over and over... lol

JayDesigns

Good point cannonball, good point.

OK, I created a php page called 'cannonball.php' and a text file called 'test.txt'

Contents of 'test.txt':

I love food, I LOVE FOOD

I love food so much...

I love it so.

Contents of 'cannonball.php':

<?php

$file = "test.txt";
$do = fopen($file, "r");
$data = fread($do, filesize($file));
fclose($do);
$data_correct = str_replace("\n","<br>",$data);
echo $data_correct;

?>

And that works on my pc. If its not on yours, I suggest you check both files are in the same directory, there aren't any spelling errors when specifying filenames, and the .txt file may need to be CHMODed, but I'm not sure what to. Try 777

djwave28

Maybe I'm messing with something, but how does your client set up their document. Is that in Microsoft :eek: Word ? .. Can't Word save that in html format and you can still edit it... and the client can decide what he's doing with it ... :rolleyes:

DJWave

CannonBallGuy

This is really really old now... But Microsoft Word saves files with terrible code...
Depreciated tags, etc...

kink

cg use a javascript, such as
<script type="text/javascript" href="yourspot">
var rt = textarea.name.value;
document.html.page.textrea.vakue = rt;
</script>

this is not a working script but i think youll get the idea

CannonBallGuy

CannonBallGuy wrote:

This is really really old now...

Why does everyone just reply to every topic in the "New Posts" page without even reading the topic to see if the problem has been solved or what-not?
ARGH!

kink

cbg use a textarea forinstance

<textarea name="salk">
</textarea>


then use
<script type="text/javascript>
function afunction
{
var ads = document.salk.value:
document.write(" + ads + ");
}
</script>


check it out hope it helps

CannonBallGuy

This post is like, 4 months old... lol