txt file to scrolling text

[danville]

I have a txt file that changes every minute. I would like to be able to display the file in is current state when a page is loaded as a scrolling text marquee or in a text area. I'm not sure even how to go about this or if it can be done with PHP. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance!

[Blob]

Just open the file with fopen, and read it to a variable, and echo that inside the marquee.

$file = fopen("filename", "r"); // r for read.
if(!$file) die("Failed to open file.");
echo "<marquee>";
while(!feof($file))
{
$read = fgets($file, 4096);
echo "$read";
}
fclose($file);
echo "</marquee>";

Try that.

[danville]

that worked great thanks for the quick help!!

[Blob]

No problem, I'm glad to help. 🙂

[jacrewq]

thats very clever. does it work in other browsers besides ie?

[Blob]

All browsers that allow marquees will do it... That's a lot of browsers/versions. 🙂

[jacrewq]

yeah i tested <marquee> w/ opera and netscape. new versions support it. but netscape 4.7 doesnt and there are still a lot of those 🙁

[onairric]

what if i my txt file is like this:

id message link
[0] this is my first message ../pages.html
[1] this is my second message ../pages2.html

how do i display specific data (using the id) in my marquee using php? and how do i put links to each message (also based on the txt file)?

hope you guyz can answer my question. thanks!

[ajdegans]

you might want to look into flatfile databases...

they work a bit like what you want 🙂

[jacrewq]

use explode()

[planetsim]

marquee is the devils tag :glare: If your really wanting to do it use JavaScript.