show the contents of text file in a textarea

[johnpikeuk]

I am attempting to show the contents of a simple text file in a forms textarea. Can anybody assist please.

[Exuro]

Actually, you can't do this with JavaScript. You'd have to use a server-side language such as PHP or ASP. All you'd have to do is "include" the text file inside you <textarea> tags!

Here's how you'd do it in ASP:

<textarea>
<!-- #include file ="textFile.txt" -->
</textarea>


Here's how you'd do it with PHP:

<textarea>
<?php include('textFile.txt'); ?>
</textarea>

[johnpikeuk]

Thanks, I've tried the script on PHP enabled server and it works fine - Thanks again

[Fire Cat]

Can you tell me how I can edit the textarea and save the changes to the file?

[ZeroKilled]

@Fire Cat:
you can change the content as you like in the TEXTAREA or in a RTE, but on javascript isn't possible to save the content on the file. however, you can send the content back to server (with submit form) and have the server to save the content in file. also, consider that there seems to be a limit of the size of data that can be send. following thread discuss briefly about this matter. http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206341