Get a value from a text file.

[Aquatic]

Hi,
I have basic HTML pages with products and prices in them, and the prices change regularly.
What I would like to do is to use a plain text file with a list of the prices in (that I can easily change and upload), then the HTML pages get their prices based on a name or variable extracted from the text file.
Is this possible ?

Regards,

[numberwhun]

Hi,
I have basic HTML pages with products and prices in them, and the prices change regularly.
What I would like to do is to use a plain text file with a list of the prices in (that I can easily change and upload), then the HTML pages get their prices based on a name or variable extracted from the text file.
Is this possible ?

Regards,

Sure, but not with HTML alone. You will need something like Perl to code what you want to do.

The Perl CGI module can be used to accomplish this task.

Regards,

Jeff

[FullyH3ktik]

You might be able to use PHP, here is a tutorial for doing such a task

http://w3schools.com/php/php_file.asp

[Aquatic]

Thanks for that, but I think that's all a bit above me.
I can "tinker" and "mess about" with complete files until they do what I want, but I havn't a clue how to write a complete program from scratch.
The .php tutorial was on the right lines, but I wouldn't know how to extract certain words or numbers from a list to put them in specific positions in my .html pages.
Thanks again for your help, I think I'll just have to keep 'wandering the net' to find someone who has written a similar thing, and use that as a frame for what I need.
Regards,

[Aquatic]

Sorry, but I just had a thought........
Couldn't I use the <a> tag with name= and id= ?
Or am I on the wrong tack ?

Regards,

[FullyH3ktik]

Sorry, but I just had a thought........
Couldn't I use the <a> tag with name= and id= ?
Or am I on the wrong tack ?

Regards,

Yes you can use the id and name attributes with an anchor