Display contents of TEXT-file in a post?

[SMiFFER]

Can I somehow display the contents of a simple text-file in a post?

The file to be displayed could simply be put into the root path of the installed SMF on my server,
just how would or could I display that file?
(It contains a list, merely a CSV)

[GigaWatt]

What do you mean "display it in a post"? Something like a warning before a member posts or opens a new thread?

[SMiFFER]

You think much too far:


Display contents of TEXT-file in a post:

When you open the post, the contest of that simple file are included in that post.

[GigaWatt]

And this is supposed to be a default action, for every user, even admins and mods?

[Kindred]

There is no good way to do this safely/securely, imo

[SMiFFER]

And this is supposed to be a default action, for every user, even admins and mods?

No.

So can it be done? How?

[GigaWatt]

I don't know how it's done, but it should be similar to the way this SMF forum warns you about sending a PM to any member. Try writing somebody on this forum a PM, you'll see what I mean .

[albertlast]

The simples way which i can imagen,
would be to create a post/topic by hand and
create a cronjob how read the csv and update in the table the body of the topic/post.

[Pipke]

And this is supposed to be a default action, for every user, even admins and mods?

No.

So can it be done? How?

This will display the content that is written inside the test.txt file at the locationpath to the SMF installation, the file content will display in every post on top and has no permissions, so everyone who has access with permissions to view posts can see it.

in Sources/Display.php

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// Run BBC interpreter on the message.
$message['body'] = parse_bbc($message['body'], $message['smileys_enabled'], $message['id_msg']);


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global $boarddir;
$message['body'] = file_get_contents( $boarddir. '/test.txt').'<hr>'.$message['body'];


[Kindred]

Pipke

that's not what he wants...   he wants ONE post to display the contents of a defined text file.
I assume that, at some point, he will want another post to display a second text file... and so on.

in other words, he needs a BBC that reads a text file

[SMiFFER]

I don't know how it's done, but it should be similar to the way this SMF forum warns you about sending a PM to any member. Try writing somebody on this forum a PM, you'll see what I mean .

I can not quite follow you. Which file is displayed there?
I can only see simple text from the language-modules being displayed and that is beside the point.

The simples way which i can imagen, would be to create a post/topic by hand and
create a cronjob how read the csv and update in the table the body of the topic/post.

That sounds rather feasible. Can you provide an example for
- implementing the cronjob to SMF (a link would be fair enough)
- the code of that fetch-text-from-csv-and-update-table-entry

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

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[html]<object width="300" height="300" type="text/plain" data="agreement.txt" border="0" >
</object>[/html]



To show the agreement.txt from the forum root. Edit as needed.
( Edit: Do note, HTML tags only work for admins. )

[SMiFFER]

Thanks, that works for the file that I have.

But the font color is black, I would like to change that, but

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[html]<object width="300" height="300" type="text/plain" font color="red" data="agreement.txt" border="0" >
</object>[/html]


does not work properly. What have I done wrong with font color="red" ?

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Quite honestly, I am not sure if it's easily possible to affect the styling of the text within an object in that way.... Would have to look in to it.

[SMiFFER]

Hm. No matter what I try: The font color of the displayed .txt file is always black.

How come?

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Because the object is separated from the surrounding webpage, for security, and displayed as raw text only. It will not take formatting.

[SMiFFER]

Because the object is separated from the surrounding webpage, for security, and displayed as raw text only. It will not take formatting.

Well that is a pity, but better safe than sorry.

I can live with it for the 1 purpose I want it for...

[SMiFFER]

SOLVED for now,
but if someone finds a way to change the color from BLACK to anything else, feel welcome.