server side include ability?

[Russ]

Could there be a generalized<P>***include(filename.html)***<P>keentag or some such to let us do even more automation and avoidance of cut and paste through all our files? E.g. probably a lot of us would like a standard header (with our comic banner and the ad banner) and footer (with copyright notice, keenspace blurb, etc.) on each our pages. It would be nice to have those in a single file that all our pages can include, so changes can be done in just one place. Thus for example our daily and index template files plus all our other html files could have<P>***include(myheader.html)*** near the top<P>and<P>***include(myfooter.html)*** near the bottom.<P>myfooter.html might say <P>All my stuff copyright 2000 Joe Blow.<P>Then a year from now I change it to say:<P>All my stuff copyright 2000-2001 Joe Blow.<P>and don't have to redo it in all my files.<P>
Or is there some existing facility that would permit this sort of thing?<P>thanks,<P>russ
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[BoxJam]

Wow - cool tag!<P>Thanks for the info!

[John T]

Neato!<P>------------------
John Troutman
The SporkMan Chronicles
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[Gav]

This does already exist, but was left out of the Taglossary:<P>***include filename***<P>...where you replace "filename" with the name of the file you wish to include. Place that file into your webpages directory.<P>------------------
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Darren "Gav" Bleuel
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[Russ]

Has anyone had any luck getting the ***include filename*** tag to work? I was trying it last night and finally gave up.<P>I'm wondering if the syntax is not quite as described (do we need quote marks, is the .html extension needed or not, etc etc.)<P>I had a file in my webpages directory called test.html.<P>Another file says ***include test.html***<P>Update. No update occurs, as if this keentag was causing an error. Remove the tag, change something else, updates occur fine.<P>Tried various variations till I got sick of it, like ***include(test.html)***, ***include "test.html"***<P>russ

[Keenspace Nate]

Try it now. We had the option turned off in the configuration file for our scripts.<P>The syntax is<P>***include filename***<P>the filename should have the appropriate extension. So an example using test.html would be <P>***include test.html***<P>Also, if you change your included file, you might have to update your site twice to see the effect (since the test file has to be copied to your main director before it can be included). If you update only once, the included file will be the older version that has already been copied into your public_html directory in an earlier update.<P>TIP: You can have the updater update your site twice (back to back) by submitting the update request more than once.<P>Later,
Nate<P>------------------
Nate
nate@keenspot.com
nate@keenspace.com

[Tirdun]

WOO-HOO!<P>Excellent, Kudos, vaya con dios, and all that. It worked perfectly... <P>Of course, now I'm thinking about rewriting a bunch of pages to use -include-... rats. <P>Oh well, thanks <P>Tirdun

[Tirdun]

I'm just about as thrilled with this thing as I can get. I cannot begin to tell you all how much this adds to an already excellent service. All my pages are now clean and tidy, using the ***include*** for all the structure, meaning that across the board changes are a snap!

[Screwball McGoo [gDC]]

Exactly which folder does the file go in? I've tried workspace. I've tried websites. I've tried public_html.

[Tirdun]

I have all mine in the workspace/webpages directory. You have to update twice (once copies the file to the /public directory and the other updates your index - I think). Otherwise, as long as I've had the file names correct, it's worked perfectly.<P>------------------
Brian West
aka Tirdun
tirdun at yahoo dot com
farawaystars.keenspace.com
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