Extracting a few characters from another page

**gazboi1987** · 11-18-2009, 09:25 AM

hi guys. new to the forum but have been using dynamic drive for years

need some help with a script i'm looking for.

I need a script on my website that picks out the first couple of characters from another page.

it would be great if anyone can help me.

**molendijk** · 11-18-2009, 12:27 PM

Main page:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

<head>

<title>Including external content with ajax + object</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">


<!--[if !IE]><!-->
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<object type="text/html" name="object_name" width="0" height="0" data="external.html"><\/object>');
</script>
<!--<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE]>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<iframe name="object_name" width="0" height="0" src="external.html"><\/iframe>');
</script>
<![endif]-->

<script type="text/javascript">
onload=function(){
document.getElementById('main_page_id').innerHTML = window.frames['object_name'].document.getElementById('some_external_div').innerHTML}
</script>


</head>

<body>
<div id="main_page_id"></div>
And this is the content of the main page.
</body>

</html>

External page (external.html):

Code:

<div id="some_external_div">
This is some part of of an external file<br>
</div>
This is the rest of the external file.

Arie Molendijk.

**djr33** · 11-19-2009, 12:13 AM

That can work using Javascript, but another way (which doesn't depend on the browser having Javascript) is to use a serverside language.

With PHP, for example, you can do this fairly easily by using $p = file_get_contents('ADDRESS'); and $p = substr($p,0,2); (Where "2" is the number of characters you want).

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