Automatically reading a webpage for keywords, from a file?

1) PJ Group: Guests
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Posted:

Hi,

Not sure if Super Note will do this, but I am looking to compile a list of keywords for a site. These keywords are left in a .txt file or .csv file we can update easily.

These Keywords then have a more detailed explanation of what each word means, within this file.

Should one of these Keywords appear within the body or designated area of the main website pages, then SuperNote applies a bold/underline tag to matched up text found or 'sniffed' from the external file. The user moves their mouse over the highlighted text, then the explanation to that keyword appears!

Really lost with this, I have seen Vibrant Media using a simular system for content text advertising. But want to control my own text, from within my own site.

Any help really appreciated!

PJ

2) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4042 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 203.118.--.--

Posted:

You would need a separate script to do that, but you could certainly integrate it with SuperNote to handle the display!

I would use <dfn> elements or <abbr> elements for the purpose there, probably do it server-side in PHP or a similar language to parse pages before they are sent to the user's computer. Otherwise you'd have to download the entire keyword list to the client computer with every request which could get lengthy.

Good luck - Angus.

Automatically reading a webpage for keywords, from a file?

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