I need help writing a php file to redirect a html request.

Question

This is a tricky problem as it is multi layered, but I'm sure there will be folks who can help me.

Basically, I have a html snippet on my website which requires a URL to execute. Instead of just writing the URL in the space, I would like it to get the contents of a text file on my server, but also add the contents of another.

here is the HTML snippet with the line which needs the text on the 4th line:

1## <script type="text/javascript" src="mrp.js"></script>
2## <script type="text/javascript">
3## MRP.insert({
4## 'url':'TEXT FROM FILES HERE',
5## 'codec':'mp3',
6## 'volume':65,
7## 'autoplay':false,
8## 'buffering':5,
9## 'title':'Radio Zaum',
10## 'welcome':'WELCOME TO...',
11## 'bgcolor':'#FFFFFF',
12## 'skin':'simple-gray',
13## 'width':300,
14## 'height':122
15## });
16## </script>

I hope someone can help me do this pretty simple, yet frustrating task! Thanks!!

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you're asking but when you say

"I would like it to get the contents of a text file on my server" 

i'm guessing you mean to grab contents of a file and insert the text in the js snippet to automate?

Your line of code:

2## <script type="text/javascript">
3## MRP.insert({
4## 'url':'TEXT FROM FILES HERE',

Possible solution: use

echo $scrape_file = file_get_contents("the_file.txt or html");

The output of the code above will be: This is a test file with test text.

2## <script type="text/javascript">
3## MRP.insert({
4## 'url':'<?=$scrape_file?>',

Answer 2

If you want to use text as a store of data, you should use xml and use the simplexml library that comes standard in the new versions of php.

W3 schools xml page