get a text file using php and send the string to javascript
Question
Ok, what I am trying to do is make a javascript loop of images, but first I have to get a list of the images. In javascript there is no way to directly grab this text file... http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/tatl/txtfiles/ft_names.txt but it can be done eaisly in php, I am currently gettung the txt file using php, but the javascript cannot read the variable. How can I make javascript be able to read this variable. Here is what I have...
<?php
$file = "http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/tatl/txtfiles/ft_names.txt"; //Path to your *.txt file
$contents = file($file);
$string = implode($contents);
echo $string;
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
function prnt() {
var whatever = "<?= $string ?>";
alert(whatever);
}
</script>
2 answers
solution1
0 2011-09-19 03:12:30
You can use echo or print to write to the page in PHP.
var whatever = "<?php echo $string; ?>";
Although, if the file has line breaks in it, you will need to remove those.
solution2
0 2011-09-19 03:48:42
Make it a bit more interesting: go ahead and split the fields and use JSON encoding. It should read directly in javascript without needing to call JSON.parse() on the client.
<?php
$lines = file_get_contents('http://...');
$lines = explode("\n",trim($lines));
foreach ($lines as &$line) {
$line = preg_split('/,? /',$line);
}
$js = json_encode($lines);
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var dar = <?php echo $js; ?>;
</script>
</body>
</html>
You should also consider using a local proxy to cache the results of that file if you plan to run this frequently and especially if you are going to serve it up on a public web server somewhere. Store the file locally as "noaa_data.txt" and have a second script on a cron job (12 hours or something):
<?php
file_put_contents("/var/www/noaa_data.txt",file_get_contents("http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/tatl/txtfiles/ft_names.txt"));
?>
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