I have obtained a free ticker from www.mioplanet.com.
My aim is to try and link the ticker to an RSS news data source (such as CNN), but I don't know how to go about doing this. Any help would be appreciated. The code for the ticker follows below.
Also, I'd like to use a javascript solution (not PHP, despite it's advantages - it's just something I'm not familiar with and would take ages to set up a solution to include PHP in an HTML document).
CODE
TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;
TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 2;
TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:Arial; font-size:12px; color:#444444";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;
ticker_start();
function ticker_start() {
var tickerSupported = false;
TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("TICKER").style.width;
var img = "<img src=ticker_space.gif width="+TICKER_WIDTH+" height=0>";
// Firefox
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<TABLE cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><TR><TD nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<SPAN style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' ID='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'> </SPAN>"+img+"</TD></TR></TABLE>";
tickerSupported = true;
}
// IE
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1) {
document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<DIV nowrap='nowrap' style='width:100%;'>"+img+"<SPAN style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' ID='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'></SPAN>"+img+"</DIV>";
tickerSupported = true;
}
if(!tickerSupported) document.getElementById("TICKER").outerHTML = ""; else {
document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth : 0;
document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT;
document.getElementById("TICKER").style.display="block";
TICKER_tick();
}
}
function TICKER_tick() {
if(!TICKER_PAUSED) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft += TICKER_SPEED * (TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? -1 : 1);
if(TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft <= 0) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth;
if(!TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = 0;
window.setTimeout("TICKER_tick()", 30);
}
27 Jun, 2008 - 07:24 AM
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