[thelist] Client Updates to SSI .inc file

Diane Soini dianesoini at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 29 09:43:48 CDT 2004


On Thursday, July 29, 2004, at 04:05 AM, 
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:

>> Subject: Re: [thelist] Client Updates to SSI .inc file

The comma-delimited idea wasn't a bad one, but I would use 
tab-delimited instead since there might be commas in the data, but not 
likely any tabs in it.

It's not totally unreasonable to use a flat-file instead of a more 
complicated database. Store the data in a separate, tab-delimited file 
and use a script to format the data into html to be included at request 
time. SSIs don't have to be .inc files. You can include the output of a 
CGI script, including passing query string parameters to it, to 
dynamically construct the resulting html page, just like it was a 
regular database.

Diane



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