ever visited zenith securities website, does anyone know how that scrolling stock report is done?if you have any experience on it,please send me a mail on jackbone_2_life@yahoo.com

ever visited zenith securities website, does anyone know how that scrolling stock report is done?if you have any experience on it,please send me a mail on jackbone_2_life@yahoo.com

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you have to write the website correctly. eg. www.zenithsecurities.com.

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jackback,

I assume this is the site you are referring to: http://www.zenithsecuritiesng.com

If this is the case, I traced the code to this file: http://www.zenithsecuritiesng.com/scrollbondprice.php

If you, "view source" and scroll to the bottom of the source page, you will see a "Dynamic Drive DHTML" section. This is the code that is used for the scroll. Also, if you view the source of the home page, and search for "gainers", you will notice there is a <script> section that references the above PHP page:

<script type="text/javascript">

//specify path to your external page:
var iframesrcbp="scrollbondprice.php"

//You may change most attributes of iframe tag below, such as width and height:
document.write('<iframe id="datamainbp" src="'+iframesrcbp+'" width="430px" height="150px" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>')
</script>

I personally think there is a better way to present the scrolled information though. What happens, for instance, if visitors to the site turn off javascript (yeah I know, not many people do that, but it is still reason to give me as a developer pause)? Perhaps flash would be a better alternative? I dunno, I am just thinking out loud here. Besides, there are people like me who find such scrolling nauseous.

I hope this helps.

The dynamic nature of the info means you can't use flash or any such animation. A simple marquee (or series of them) with dynamic variables, some CSS, DHTML would do the trick. I did something similar recently. Of course if its fed by a db then some server-side programming is needed. It's not too complicated.

so deejay,

Are you saying one couldn't use a combination of Flash and AJAX (or what some people call AFLAX) to dynamically generate and display the information?

If so, I beg to differ.

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