Advanced Sliding Text Applet

To create your data file, simply open up your favorite text editor and add the text you wish to be displayed. Now save the file as 'textdata.txt' in the same directory as your web page. (If you choose to use a different filename or location remember to change the 'dataURL' parameter to reflect this.)

In addition to plain text, the Advanced Sliding Text allows you to add to special functions to the text. These are achieved by adding Special Instruction Tags within the text file. The possible tags and function are as follows,

Although above we have discussed building a static text file to hold the data, the content can also be supplied by a server side script (eg. PHP, ASP, JSP or Perl etc). This opens the possibility for the data to be dynamically loaded from data held within a database.

Such a server side script may be constructed in any language of your choice. The only requirement is that the output of the script provides the content in the format described above.

This opens up many possibilities for producing dynamic content. A script can be written to acquire data from virtually any data source, process the data and even generate content based upon session data (ie. a user ID).

To configure the Advanced Sliding Text Applet to acquire the data from your own server side script simply set the "data" parameter to the URL pointing to your script. eg.

<param name="data" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/data.php">

For and example of this click here»