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HTML - Updating Content Automatically
Im not sure if this an html, php, or javascript question but here goes. I am trying to set up a place at my sight where I can have a content page from a certain link update automatically.
For example, I want to create a 30 day journal link where each day a new journal page would come up. To my understanding I know I would have create a folder that would have 30 separate html pages. But my question is how can I set up the site that each page would automatically update according to day and time. Let's say that at 12:00am midnight a new html page with new content would be available for the reader. I don't have a lot of time to manually update the link with new content, so I want the site to do it on its own each day. Am I making any sense? I just need to know how I can have content automatically update each day without my needed to go and do it manually every day. Any help would be appreciated....thx so much. Similar TutorialsHello, I have about 25-30 pages on my site. It has a link navigation menu and a sidebar on the left with newsletter opt in, products for sale, etc... I was wondering if there was a way to change/ edit the contents of the sidebar on EVERY PAGE without having to manually go in and change the updated HTML code on every single page. Is there a script that i can use to make this happen that I can just edit the sidebar and it will "update" the sidebar on all 30 pages accordingly?? Rather than manually doing this 30 times for every page my website is http://www.optimumtennis.net thanks in advance Hello all, I have recently set up a website for my gaming servers. http://www.accurategameserver.110mb.com As you can see on my site, it has all the recent game changes etc. I find it really anoying and time consuming to have to keep flicking back and forth to change each section data and its usually only like one small change. Any way that I can change it so that it automatically updates to a set image/text on a seperate page? Last question is, how do ou make a registration form on your website without mysql and send out automatic emails. Thanks all in advance. Cheers Don't forget to register to my website for gaming goodness I'm not sure how to explain this, but I hope someone can help me or point me in the right direction. I'd like to have a small side column on my website with content such as recent updates. Ideally, I'd like to be able change just one file and have that reflected on every page. Right now, I have to go through and update each page manually but I know there must be an easier way to do this. I'm thinking this is somehow related to RSS feeds but I don't really know much about them and I'm not sure if that's what I'm actually looking for. Can anyone offer any advice/tutorials/suggestions/help for a way to do this? The site I'm working on is located here and the section that I would like to be able to change that right column ("Recently Updated"). Hello, I'm going to be updating an HTML website for a friend, and it's going to be a very basic webpage. Mostly HTML with a little JavaScript thrown in for fun. My question is, how do I handle content management for the user? The website is going to be a standard setup with a "New Information" section on the homepage. This section will be updated by the admin (my friend) on a regular basis, but I'd like to be able to have her update this info in a more user-friendly manner than updating the actual HTML code. Content management is new to me, so I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks in advance! Hello everyone. I'm working on a website and I'm not quite sure how to do something. I'm hoping someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. The site will have content on each product page such as special deals, recent news or announcements. Each product page will also have their contact information. Now what I need to figure out is this. Since the "recent news" , "Special deals" and "Announcements" will be on every product page. I need to find a way to those things on every page at once. Just to show an example. Here's one of the practice pages: http://sbultimate.com/newsite/toeswitch.html If you scroll down you'll see the sample of Announcements, specials and news. That's the part I'm talking about. If any of you can help me learn how to do this I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks. Ron Introduction: Seeing as this question is brought up very often, I hope this short guide will be a destination for users seeking information about the topic. Although this is a server-side issue, those who are not aware of this fact generally seek help in HTML/XHTML, so this is where the topic will remain Note: Read the answers to Frequently Asked Questions in the next post! Hasn't this been done before? Absolutely; this is meant as a straightforward stickied version that brings a few things together and references previous threads where you can find further details. If your question is somewhere in the realm of one of these, you're in the right place: How do large websites manage their content? How do I make the same content appear in multiple pages without copy/pasting? How do I automatically update parts of different pages, without editing every file? How do I avoid duplicating code in multiple files? Is there an alternative to IFrames? The answer is using PHP Includes, SSI (Server Side Includes), or ASP Includes. Each will be discussed below. Basic Concept: Let's assume we have a basic HTML page with a few links that represent a navigation menu (we're using HTML5 markup for simplicity): Code: <!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Main Page</title> </head> <body> <div> <ul> <li><a href="home.html">Home Page</a></li> <li><a href="gallery.html">Gallery Page</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About Page</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact Page</a></li> </ul> </div> </body> </html> This HTML page is now our basic template for subsequent pages that we create, which traditionally meant that we copy and paste our menu into each one. However, what if we end up creating 50 pages and then find out we have to add another link to the menu? Our only solution would be to add the link to each page. In order to avoid this, we separate our menu from the rest of the page like so: Code: <div> <ul> <li><a href="home.html">Home Page</a></li> <li><a href="gallery.html">Gallery Page</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About Page</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact Page</a></li> </ul> </div> Save it in a file, and then place an include on every page where we want to display the menu: Code: <!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Main Page</title>
</head>
<body>
code for including menu would go here
</body>
</html>
This setup lets us update our menu file, and have the changes be immediately reflected everywhere we placed our include. The concept is most often used with things like menus, headers, and footers, but it can be used with anything and we'll now discuss how it's done in practice. Note: The attached zip contains working examples of all three methods. PHP Includes: General Requirements: Your web-hosting provider must support PHP, which most of them do. If your host does not support PHP, I would suggest switching hosts. If you do not have a hosting provider, and you're attempting this on your local computer, it must be set up as a local server and configured to run PHP. The easiest way to do this at once is by installing XAMPP. Required Filetypes: By default, servers will only parse PHP code inside files with the .php extension. Therefore, you must change the extension of any files you want to use includes in to .php (e.g. index.html becomes index.php). Although your main file must have a .php extension, you can include files with extensions such as .html, .txt, .inc, other .php files, and more. Syntax Here are two ways to include a file in PHP: PHP Code: <?php include('file_to_include.html');?> or: PHP Code: <?php include 'file_to_include.html';?> Note that you can also include full URLs if URL file-access is enabled in your server's configuration: PHP Code: <?php include("http://www.google.com/");?> Code Example: (some_page.php) Code: <!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>PHP Include</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php include("menu.html");?>
</body>
</html>
Server Side Includes (SSI): General Requirements: Your web-hosting provider must support Server Side Includes, which most of them do. If you do not have a hosting provider, and you're attempting this on your local computer, it must be set up as a local server and configured to support Server Side Includes. If you are using Apache, you can find information on enabling SSI here. If you are using IIS, you can install Server Side Includes inside Windows Features > World Wide Web Services > Application Development Features > Server Side Includes, although this path may differ depending on your version of Windows. Required Filetypes: By default, servers will only parse Server Side Includes inside files with the .shtml, .shtm or .stm extensions. Therefore, you must change any files you want to use includes in to have one of these extensions (e.g. index.html becomes index.shtml). Although your main file must have one of the above extensions, you can include files with extensions such as .ssi, .html, .txt, .inc, and more. Syntax Here are two ways to include a file using SSI: Code: <!--#include file="menu.ssi" --> Is used to specify a relative path, i.e. a path to your include in relation to where your main file is. The above assumes that your main file, and menu.ssi are in the same directory. Code: <!--#include virtual="includes/menu.ssi" --> Is used to specify a path relative to the web root. The above assumes that menu.ssi is located inside webroot/includes Code Example: (some_page.shtml) Code: <!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>SSI Include</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--#include file="menu.ssi" -->
</body>
</html>
ASP Includes: General Requirements: Your web-hosting provider must support ASP. If you do not have a hosting provider, and you're attempting this on your local computer, it must be set up as a local server and configured to support ASP. If you are using Apache, you can find information on enabling ASP here. If you are using IIS, you can install ASP inside Windows Features > World Wide Web Services > Application Development Features > ASP, although this path may differ depending on your version of Windows. Required Filetypes: By default, servers will only parse ASP code inside files with the .asp extension. Therefore, you must change the extension of any files you want to use includes in to .asp (e.g. index.html becomes index.asp). Although your main file must have a .asp extension, you can include files with extensions such as, .html, .txt, .inc, other .asp files, and more. Syntax Here are two ways to include a file using ASP (The syntax is exactly the same as SSI): Code: <!--#include file="menu.html" --> Is used to specify a relative path, i.e. a path to your include in relation to where your main file is. The above assumes that your main file, and menu.html are in the same directory. Code: <!--#include virtual="includes/menu.html" --> Is used to specify a path relative to the web root. The above assumes that menu.html is located inside web root directory/includes Code Example: (some_page.asp) Code: <!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>ASP Include</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--#include file="menu.html" -->
</body>
</html>
Hi, Im trying to make my footer content align correctly to the main content when a window resizes. The apdivs don't seem to want to move at all even with a relative position etc. I have tried everything but just cant get it to work can someone help please? http://pjm.co.uk.uksite4.yourwebserv...splay&PageID=5 Also some one commented before on the amount of css and JS pages. These will al be stripped out as its an Open sources system im using! Thansk alot Joe I know this is something simple, but I can't remember how its done. But how can I have a form go to the bottom of a page? I'm making a chat, and everything works fine. Except whenever you submit something it goes back to the top of the page. So how do I force it to the bottom? When I put in my code, it works just fine on my Mac in Safari or Firefox. However, when I test it on a PC in Explorer 7 or 8 it starts playing automatically. This is what my code looks like: Code: <audio controls="controls"> <source src="/media/GOAL.wav" type="audio/wav" autostart="false"/> <embed height="100px" width="200px" src="/media/GOAL.wav" /> </audio> The "autostart" code I put in apparently is wrong. Is there a way to fix this so it does not autostart in Explorer and any other browers? Thx. I have a site where people are uploading pictures to an "uploads" directory. I have a page where I would like to display the photographs that people upload without me having to code in each individual photo as it is uploaded. So, is there a way to get my page to automatically display all the photos that are in the uploads directory? After a user uploads a file he is automatically logged-out and re-directed to "destination" web page. Then the user can only select the Home link and re-directs himself to the home page. What code can I add to the "destination" web page (code below) that will automatically (in the background) move the user automatically from the "destination" page to the Home Page? (if you suggest I re-direct straight from the upload to Home Page, I'd rather go to destination page and then to home page) Thank you. Also, I tried this at the end of the page, but it didn't work: Code: header("Location: http://www.somewebsite.com/home/index.php");
exit;
</table></html>
Here's the full page code: Code: <html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<link href="custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<table width="770" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="maintable" align="center">
<td><img src="images/greyline.gif" alt="" width="174" height="0"></td>
<td><img src="images/white.gif" alt="" width="596" height="0"></td>
<link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><style type="text/css"></style>
<tr>
<td width="174" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#A30100">
<form method="POST" action="index.php">
<input class='field' type='hidden' name='command' value='account'>
<input class='field' type='hidden' name='param' value='login'>
<br>
<img src="images/bullet.gif" alt="" width="10" height="10"><a href="/home/index.php"><font color="#DDCEA2"><font face="Arial" size="2">Home</a></font><br>
<td width="420" valign="top" bgcolor:"#000000">
[main_content]</td>
</table>
<td width="174" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" align="right"> </tr></table>
</table>
</html>
Hi, I'm building a website for a Rock Band. They have a FORTHCOMING GIGS page, and a GIG HISTORY page. Can anyone tell me how, when the date changes, the information is deleted from the FORTHCOMING GIGS page, and then appears on the GIG HISTORY page. I know that this can be done automatically, I just don't know how. I think it might be a php script. Thanks Evening all, I'm looking for some simply coding to tell an image to resize to fit into a frame that is defined in the CSS layout. The image size needs to be reduced to 630x402, the original size is much greater. <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> var theImages = new Array() theImages[0] = 'images/main_img.jpg' theImages[1] = 'images/main_img2.jpg' theImages[2] = 'images/main_img3.jpg' theImages[2] = 'images/main_img4.jpg' var j = 0 var p = theImages.length; var preBuffer = new Array() for (i = 0; i < p; i++){ preBuffer[i] = new Image() preBuffer[i].src = theImages[i] } var whichImage = Math.round(Math.random()*(p-1)); function showImage(){ document.write('<img src="'+theImages[whichImage]+'">'); } </script> <div id="main_img"><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">showImage();</script></div> I need someway of implementing the size change into the coding somewhere. Thank you for any help in advance! How can I automatically add the same top and bottom to all my pages ? Should I use an authoring tall such as Dreamweaver (using templates) ? thanks I was wondering if it was possible to have photos on a page, automatically change to a different photo, say every 5 seconds, to add a bit of variety to a page... but I have no idea where to start. Can anyone help? <a href="javascript: history.go(-1)">Back</a> this does - on click go back to previous page right.. can you tell me equivalen code to go back automatically.. i.e. with a possible time delay thank you I have an HTML form in .asp page. whenever I save the .asp page the closing tag ie. </form> is automatically added after the opening tag ie. <form> as give below. HTML Code: <form name="ApplicationForm" class="appnitro" id="form_98697" method="post" action="CandInsertFormProcess.asp" onsubmit="return Validate()"> </form> <div class="form_description"> <p><img border="0" src="images/logo2.gif"></p> </div> <ul > I have used this form for over one year but the problem came up just after I formatted my PC and reinstalled Vista Service Pack 2. I wonder is there any problem with OS or something else. Please guide me any guy... Thanks in advance Riaz I've got a menu I've made in fireworks that I've got to copy to about 20 pages every time I update it. Is there any way to make this process simpler? When someone clicks an email link on our website I want the email subject line automatically filled in for them. I have tried the following code, but it does not work. <a href="mailto:example@example.co.uk?subject=example">example@example.co.uk</a> I am pretty sure its because I am putting the email address as the text for the link. Because when I replace the email address with normal text, it works fine. Instead of showing example@example.co.uk it shows mailto:example@example.co.uk?subject=example |
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