scroller help needed

[BRIT1956]

Well it's been a while since I last called by, I hope somebody can help.

I'm putting together a webpage for a guy who is a total moron when it comes to puters, however he needs to update a news scroller weekly, can a scroller call a text file from a seperate folder in the route directory, if so some help please, javascript is not my strongpoint.

My thinking is he could update a textfile produced with notepad and just put it in the folder whenever he needs to and the script will read whatever the filename is, that is if I can get the simplicity of uploading via ftp thru to him!!

 

[chessbot]

The ideal way to do this would be to use server-side scripting (ASP, PHP, etc.). Is that an option?

--Chessbot

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[BRIT1956]

No, want to keep it all in one place for my simplicity when it comes to sorting stuff out at a later date. I'm sure he's gonna ask me to keep it up and running tho I don't want to, work colleagues huh!

 

[adam0101]

Create an external JavaScript file with content like this:

function newsText(){/* DO NOT MODIFY THIS LINE

News
More News
Even more news

*/}// DO NOT MODIFY THIS LINE

Then you can get the content using this:

<script src="newsContent.js"></script>
<script>
Function.prototype.getComment=function(){
  return this.toString().match(/\/\*[^\n]*\n([^(\*\/)]*)\*\//)[1];
}

var news = newsText.getComment();
alert(news);
</script>

Adam
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