[thelist] Advisablitity of SSI

Thu Sep 18 13:31:53 CDT 2003

Hello,

I use SSI exactly as you thought, a simple example
of press.shtml might be:

<!--#include virtual="/common/header.inc.html" -->
<title>page specific title</title>
</head>
<body id="press">
<!--#include virtual="/common/navigation.inc.shtml" -->
<!--#include virtual="press.inc.html" -->
<!--#include virtual="/common/footer.inc.html" -->
</body>
</html>

Of course the actual page HTML is more complicated and
as it got so I now wish I would have used templates.

I also mix PHP freely with this on our Apache server so
the same files can be used in scripts as well:

<?php
   include 'shared.inc.php';
   virtual("/common/header.inc.html");
   echo "<title>$pgtitle</title>\n";
   .
   .
   .
?>

-Carl Edwards
 Vitesse

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John.Brooking at na.sappi.com [mailto:John.Brooking at na.sappi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:46 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] Advisablitity of SSI
> 
> 
> Hello, all,
> .
> .
> . 
>    I suppose this is only really an issue if you are manually 
> coding and
> maintaining a site. If you are using content management 
> software, you can
> just set up the common elements as part of a template, and if 
> you change the
> template, all pages change automatically, either because they 
> are built
> dynamically already, or maybe are rewritten when their 
> dependencies change.
> 
>    Comments?
> 
> - John
> 