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switch

Dec 9 2005, 05:42 AM

hey, come to think of it, would there be a way to include little side fragments like for a side contents bar or something? that's another thing i'm trying to do. I can think of a way that involves include-ing into tables, but tables are really bad for design...

also, the parts in between the PHP include statements, are they just written in standard HTML? if so, where does the <HTML> tag come in? before the PHP or after? I'm guessing it comes in at the top of the header file.

thanks for all your support everyone.

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Tyssen

Dec 10 2005, 06:28 AM

QUOTE(switch @ Dec 9 2005, 03:42 PM)

also, the parts in between the PHP include statements, are they just written in standard HTML? if so, where does the <HTML> tag come in? before the PHP or after? I'm guessing it comes in at the top of the header file.

You can put whatever you want between the includes. Same as in the includes themsevles. An include can also just be a single line of code if you want it to be - it doesn't have to be a large chunk of code like a header.
The reason I laid out my previous post the way I did is cos I'm guessing you don't know much PHP yet and are wary of using PHP includes for that reason. I was just trying to show how you how easy it is to use them without knowing much PHP.
In reality, my header include is a bit more complicated than that cos I've actually included it in a function which can receive different variables from different pages to change the title, meta description and other lines of code too. But it doesn't have to be any more complicated than simply pasting HTML into it.

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OpaQue

Jan 15 2006, 07:52 AM

QUOTE(Tyssen @ Nov 30 2005, 03:34 AM)

They work in a very similar way to the js method you posted. You create a file with the piece of code that's to be inserted into another file and then you write a line of code in that file that calls the include. For PHP it looks like this:

CODE

<? php include('yourfile.htm') ?>

In ASP and HTML it looks like this:

CODE

Some configuration of the server is required to get it to work for HTML as it is not usually enabled by default. PHP, ASP, JSP, Coldfusion etc. all enable them by default.
You can call any file to include in your document: .htm, .txt, .inc, .asp, .php. In fact, you can write scripting code in a .txt file and it'll work as intended if it is included in a file with the relevant extension (e.g. .asp or .php).
I'm not aware of any restrictions (except if you're server isn't configured to accept them which wouldn't be the case if you're using Trap17). The benefits over the js method is that they can't be turned off and rather than being written to the page as javascript, they get written as HTML (or whatever else you've included).

<? ?>
PHP include statement. The file name extension should be .php


SSI include statement. The file name extension should be .shtm or .shtml

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Tyssen

Jan 15 2006, 08:42 AM

QUOTE(OpaQue @ Jan 15 2006, 05:52 PM)

<? ?>
PHP include statement. The file name extension should be .php


SSI include statement. The file name extension should be .shtm or .shtml

No, that's incorrect actually - you can include any sort of file, even .txt files. The file calling the include must have the correct file extension, but it doesn't matter for the include itself.

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jlhaslip

Jan 15 2006, 03:17 PM

So then the follwing code should work if it is saved into an shtml file, but it doesn't.

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<h2>Content here h2 </h2>

Are there any corrections that should be made to the syntax?
It works okay if I use the php version.

And in the php file, the full path must be in the include. I tried several other paths and this is the one that works. Shortening it to '/testinclude/header' fails as do all the ones in between.

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Tyssen

Jan 16 2006, 12:03 AM

For SSI, it's the same as an absolute URL:

CODE

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jlhaslip

Jan 16 2006, 12:56 AM

Okay, thanks for the answer Tyssen, however, by way of PM from Buffalohelp, I have information which suggests I stop with this Html Include stuff because Trap17.com does not support them. Now that I know this, I will continue with php includes only.

(apperently, Html includes is a MS ASP construct and trap17 is Linux, so that's why they aren't supported here.)

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Tyssen

Jan 16 2006, 01:12 AM

QUOTE(jlhaslip @ Jan 16 2006, 10:56 AM)

I actually wrote a post that said something like that the first time, but something happened and it didn't get posted, so the 2nd time around I just went for the quick approach.

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