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Help creating linked Marquee
Angelwiingz
3 Oct, 2008 - 12:38 AM
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Hi,

I'm trying to create a Marquee that is linked to the information from another website. What I want to do is pull the current DJ on air, and the current song title to the marquee and make it display this information. I have the marquee set up, just don't know the right way to link it. Here's what I have:

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<META content=60 http-equiv=REFRESH>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
    color: #211C21;
}
body {
    background-color: #211C21;
}
-->
</style>
<marquee direction="left"
scrollamount='3'
scrolldelay='1'
behavior="scroll" >
<url value='http://64.191.53.213:7050'>
<b><font color='#0000CC'>On Air: </b>
<b><font color='#3399CC'>DJ~Southrnlaady   </b>
<b><font color='#0000CC'>Currently Playing: </b>
<b><font color='#3399CC'>Soundgarden - Loud Love</b></font>
</marquee>


Somehow I need the DJ name to change and the currently playing song. All I am getting at this point is exactly what is written in the code and it's not changing at all. Help would be greatly appreciated.
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RE: Help Creating Linked Marquee
3 Oct, 2008 - 04:26 AM
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I have never done this before but I can tell you that HTML and CSS alone are not going to get this done.
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3 Oct, 2008 - 04:45 AM
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You could look into setting up an Ajax connection to the other site and try that, but that is not always going to work (like if the other site doesn't allow connections from AJAX). Or, you could also create a PHP script that takes the things off of the other site and then use AJAX to connect with your php script (that should work, but will be slower overall).

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When using PHP you will need to remember that most free hosts don't allow it, and that you need to be able to use PHP on your server for it to work.
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Hope that helps.
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3 Oct, 2008 - 05:59 AM
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if php works you can avoid ajax all together. You can use $data = file_get_contents($url); where $url is the url you want to read this information from. It will return the rendered html, so you will need to parse it with javascript or other language of choice, you can use regular expressions to parse it or load it to a div and apply dom operations on the structure itself.

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