Topic: Displaying the contents of a file...

Hi Folks,
Can anyone out there give me a hand? I'm trying to show the contents of a text file on the browser without plugins. It doesn't matter if it's in a textarea or on the background...
I'm new at this web stuff, as you can tell, but I'm trying...

Thanks
-Sir Henry

A Dragon in the disguise of a Bunny, is still a Dragon...

The server will need to get the contents of the text file (which must be on the server) and include then in the page.

You cannot get the contents of a text file on the user's hard drive through JavaScript or any other client-side language.

If you just need the content of the file you could provide a link to the file, or import the file via some back end scripting, every language has some sort of import function from SSI to Java.

Well, this question just begs so many other questions.

Like - why?

Why do you need to display the contents of atext file? In what manner are you attempting to display them? (as in - is this dynamic content that needs to be displayed depending on what the user does? or is it something that will load on the page everytime? is there some special circumstance?)

Where is the text file in question?

Why is it a text file, and not HTML?

What type of webhost do you have, and what server side options are available to you?

And so on...

You might find these two Gurus Network tutorials useful:
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/ssi/ssi1_intro.html
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/php/phptemplate/phptemplate.html



[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 01-24-2003).]