Using external text file in an HTML page.

sborny · Sep 24, 2003

Hi,

Fairly new to HTML etc, does anyone know if it it possible to pull the text content of a HTML page from a text file.

The reason being is that the content of the site will be changed very often and rather re code the whole page I would like to just change the text file and the page updates automatically.

Thanks in Advance.

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ChrisHunt · Sep 24, 2003

Use Server Side Includes (SSIs) to insert content of one file into another. There are plenty of threads dealing with how to use them, and two FAQs on the Web Site Designers forum.

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ChrisHunt · Sep 24, 2003

Incidentally, you may well be better advised to have your varying content held directly in each individual HTML file, and use SSIs to include common elements like navigation menus etc.

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Vragabond · Sep 24, 2003

If you have a server that supports server side commands you could be able to include the text part of the page in a page layout. Somewhat like this:

Code:

<html>
<head>
...
<!--#include file=&quot;filename.txt&quot;-->
or
<!--#include virtual=&quot;/txtfiles/filename.txt&quot;-->
(use virtual if your file resides in a virtual path on the server)
...
</head>
</html>

Bear in mind though, that the text you enter from txt will not be formatted in any way (not even line breaks will be visible).

Hope it helps.

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Using external text file in an HTML page.

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