News scroller for PhP?

jhilb

I am looking for a free-to-use (or pay if nominal) news scroller that works with PhP easily. Just something that scrolls vertically.

I am converting an Asp.net app to Php. So far so good, but the old app had an ASp.net specific control for scrolling news items (with links to the news article).

drew010

php isnt capable of scrolling because thats client side code, like javascript or dhtml, but you could retrieve news from a database or something and then pass it to a javascript scroller script.

jhilb

OK, then has anyone used a decent javascript scroller then?

brianu

Here you go, this one is pretty good

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/mikescroll_dev.htm

seby

look how simple, none of this fancy javascript crap is needed 😉

echo"
<marquee behavior=\"scroll\" direction=\"up\" scrollamount=\"2\" scrolldelay=\"1\" onmouseover='this.stop()' onmouseout='this.start()'>

Text to scroll.........

</marquee>
";

if you want it to keep scrolling if a user moves their mouse over it then just remove onmouseover='this.stop()' onmouseout='this.start()'

If your going to be scrolling links then leave it.

you can change the scrolling speed, make it scroll up, down, etc..

jhilb

Thanks, I'll check that link out.

Isn't marquee internet explorer only? My understanding was that it didn't work with Netscape or any other browsers.

jhilb

Actually, seems it might be any browser compatible. But it's only horizontal scrolling that I can tell, I need vertical.