How do I insert a variable value from another site?

[vibe666]

I am running the website for the sysopt.com users 2002 seti@home team and I want to show the number of members of the team on the website without having to manually change it every time someone new joins, by linking directly to the team page on the seti@home servers so that the number that appears on our website is the number that is on the team site at seti@home. does that make sense?

Thanks, oh and if anyone has any critique about the site I'd be interested to hear what you have to say, bearing in mind that I don't know much at all about HTML or site design in general and just used FrontPage2002 because it was already on my system :)

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[DocEvi1]

nice looking, but I would change the colour of the button's to them stand out more....just personal preference tho.

Where is the seti@home site that has the member numbers?

Stefan

[DocEvi1]

there is no way to do on the fly - it is a plain HTML page not a scripting language.

The only way you could do it would be to make a VB prog to download the page, check, update yours and then you upload it.....possibly easier to do it yourself.

Stefan

[theory53]

it can be done, but not without modification to the code on the pages within the seti servers.

[vibe666]

the link for the team stats page at seti@home is HERE (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_130637.html).

Can it really be that hard to do?

Oh, and I haven't found a way of changing the button colours because it's a theme set in FP 2002, if anyone knows how, I'd be grateful, I wanted the buttons a lighter shade of blue, but I can't seem to do that either.

[DocEvi1]

a theme, tsk :rolleyes:

Open the images in an external prog and just change the colour....I don't have FP XP so I can't help with them.

Stefan

[vibe666]

any chance you'd know where the images are stored in FP?

[Karifan]

Under Themes

Right click on the page you are previewing, then select themes, you can make a custom theme with your own images if you choose or you can modify the color combinations,

If FP2002 is anything similar to FP2000 then I am on the right track with this advise.


Otherwise you can search for the image on the pc that fp2002 is installed on, for example, The image that makes the contact button is called: contact.htm_cmp_corporat110_vbtn_a.gif

then you can locate the rest of the images.

Did you figure out how to transfer the member# from the other page? If not, let me know what you are trying to do exactly? Are you trying to take the data without any linking to the page? or is that figure stored in a database field, textfile or variable maybe?
with regular html I am not sure it can be done, but ASP is something to consider or if both pages are on the same server or pc, it can easily be done.

[vibe666]

the site is the stats page at the seti@home servers (our team stats page in fact) and my website is on completely different servers.

shame that.