derhamm
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Best language for displaying a text file's data in an html page
I don't have cgi access, but I am allowed a script that writes form data to a text file that I do have access to. I'm looking for a way to display the text file's data in a web page. . like a guestbook. Using the <pre> tag would be acceptable too.
ASKER
Sounds great. Tried it but the text isn't displayed. I'm sure it's because the 80Megs of free webspace Earthlink provides it's broadband subscribers doesn't include SSI. Haven't read that anywhere but I assume it's probably the case. Just in case, is there something I need at the head of my .shtml code? Thanks for the info.
copy and paste the code for me so i can check... also do you have any details on what earthlink provides you or if you give me your url, i can try to see what type of server your site is on and perhaps i can give you more info
ASKER
Here's the link:
http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml
Here's the code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample Form</h1>
<hr>
<form method="post" action="http://home.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/appendto">
<input type="hidden" name="appendfile" value="data/formresults.tx
<input type="hidden" name="thankURL" value="http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml">
<p><b>Name:</b><input type="text" name="name" size="30">
<br><b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" size="30"><p>
<b>Comments:</b>
<br><textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form><p>
<hr>
<!--#include file="data/formresults.txt
</body>
</html>
http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml
Here's the code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample Form</h1>
<hr>
<form method="post" action="http://home.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/appendto">
<input type="hidden" name="appendfile" value="data/formresults.tx
<input type="hidden" name="thankURL" value="http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml">
<p><b>Name:</b><input type="text" name="name" size="30">
<br><b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" size="30"><p>
<b>Comments:</b>
<br><textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form><p>
<hr>
<!--#include file="data/formresults.txt
</body>
</html>
ASKER
Here's the link:
http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml
Here's the code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample Form</h1>
<hr>
<form method="post" action="http://home.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/appendto">
<input type="hidden" name="appendfile" value="data/formresults.tx
<input type="hidden" name="thankURL" value="http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml">
<p><b>Name:</b><input type="text" name="name" size="30">
<br><b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" size="30"><p>
<b>Comments:</b>
<br><textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form><p>
<hr>
<!--#include file="data/formresults.txt
</body>
</html>
http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml
Here's the code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample Form</h1>
<hr>
<form method="post" action="http://home.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/appendto">
<input type="hidden" name="appendfile" value="data/formresults.tx
<input type="hidden" name="thankURL" value="http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml">
<p><b>Name:</b><input type="text" name="name" size="30">
<br><b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" size="30"><p>
<b>Comments:</b>
<br><textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form><p>
<hr>
<!--#include file="data/formresults.txt
</body>
</html>
ASKER
Here's the link:
http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml
Here's the code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample Form</h1>
<hr>
<form method="post" action="http://home.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/appendto">
<input type="hidden" name="appendfile" value="data/formresults.tx
<input type="hidden" name="thankURL" value="http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml">
<p><b>Name:</b><input type="text" name="name" size="30">
<br><b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" size="30"><p>
<b>Comments:</b>
<br><textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form><p>
<hr>
<!--#include file="data/formresults.txt
</body>
</html>
http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml
Here's the code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Sample Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Sample Form</h1>
<hr>
<form method="post" action="http://home.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/appendto">
<input type="hidden" name="appendfile" value="data/formresults.tx
<input type="hidden" name="thankURL" value="http://home.earthlink.net/~denhamm/append.shtml">
<p><b>Name:</b><input type="text" name="name" size="30">
<br><b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" size="30"><p>
<b>Comments:</b>
<br><textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form><p>
<hr>
<!--#include file="data/formresults.txt
</body>
</html>
ok, well it appears that earthlink is running an Apache web server on a Unix platform, so you could probably try PHP...
so rename your file with a .php extension and to insert your text, use the following code...
<?php
include("data/formresults.
?>
so rename your file with a .php extension and to insert your text, use the following code...
<?php
include("data/formresults.
?>
ASKER
Thanks for your help tconnolly. PHP doesn't seem to work either. I think Earthlink strips us free webspace users of the basic extras most webmasters get like custom cgi, php, ssi, etc... I appreciate your help and if I don't get a working workaround in a few days I'll accept your php as an answer. Could you tell me what steps you took to find the web server and platform Earthlink is running? Thanks again.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/
find the form on the left hand side that says
"what's that site running?"
find the form on the left hand side that says
"what's that site running?"
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Cool! I hadn't researched that tag yet. Anything work in Netscape? I could have some javascript determine the browser and display one or the other. If nothing works in Netscape I'll just have the script write an option to open a window containing the text file.
iframes are not supported in older versions of netscape (les than 6)
ASKER
Cool! I hadn't researched that tag yet. Anything work in Netscape? I could have some javascript determine the browser and display one or the other. If nothing works in Netscape I'll just have the script write an option to open a window containing the text file.
IE and Netscape 6 are more than 95% according to this site.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_war.asp
My experience shows even a larger share.
ShalomC
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_war.asp
My experience shows even a larger share.
ShalomC
ASKER
I ended up using the <iframe> tag to solve my issue.
<iframe src="myfile.txt" height="300" width="400" name="textfile" frameborder="no" scrolling="auto"></iframe>
Thanks!
<iframe src="myfile.txt" height="300" width="400" name="textfile" frameborder="no" scrolling="auto"></iframe>
Thanks!
<!--#include file="textfile.txt" -->
you could even control formatting (albeit somewhat limited) by surrounding the command with <p> tags or other tags and use CSS to control the properties
the only other thing to remember is yto name your files with a .shtml extension...
hope this helps:)
TomC