read contents of a file and put it as a tooltip 2

[viclap]

Hi to all,

i'm looking for sample php code wherein when a cursor points to an image or link on a web page a popup window or tooltip will appear on the screen. The description that will appear as popup window or tooltip will be read on a file. Or any ideas?

Thanks so much in advance.

 

[Vragabond]

i'm looking for sample php code wherein when a cursor points to an image or link on a web page a popup window or tooltip will appear on the screen.

This part will not be done by php. PHP runs on the server and when page is displayed, connection with the server is lost and php does no more work until the page is reloaded again. So, any code you're looking to display a popup or a tooltip will have to be client-side code (javascript, vbscript), which falls out of the scope of this forum. Incidentally, all html elements support attribute [tt]title[/tt], which displays the value of that attribute as a tooltip.

The description that will appear as popup window or tooltip will be read on a file. Or any ideas?

Simply use fopen() and fread() commands to open the file and read the information from it and then output it to whatever code will be handling display of popups.

 

[litton1]

are the files on the client or server machine?

Binary Intelligence, true or false?

 

[vacunita]

You could do it with PHP, for an image, you could read the file and then put its contents on the "alt" property of the image for anything else I believe the title property should work. just echo the contents of the file into the property.

<img src="myimage.gif" alt=<? echo $filecontents; ?> >

it's the reading of the file that has to be done beforehand.
this pease of code works just the way you wanted.

function openmyfile($myfilename)
{
$it = fopen($myfilename,"r");

$tooltip = fread($it,filesize($myfilename));
fclose($it);
return $tooltip;
}

this will retunr the contents of your file. so then you can just call the function in the title property like this

<img src="myimage.gif" title="<? echo openmyfile('thisimagestooltipfile.txt'); ?>" >