advice regarding page templates
I have a site that archives Transformer images from 1984-1990. Divided into years, each year has its own page with rows of clickable thumbnails (four to a row). The number of rows vary, as does the number of images per year, however the entire rest of the format remains standard.
Can someone suggest a method by which I can use one page as a template and call a database to fill in the blanks?
The URL is cybertron.botch.com/archive
I was already planning on implementing an external JS and CSS file, but surely there is a language that will let me do what I described above?
Thanks!
- Botch
Justin S posted this at 20:10 — 22nd November 1999.
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What about using SSI?
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Botch posted this at 20:48 — 22nd November 1999.
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Can you suggest a good online SSI tutorial for someone who (like me) is HTML and Javascript literate, but not very up on our CGI or Perl?
Thanks, by the way!
- Botch
Justin S posted this at 21:23 — 22nd November 1999.
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http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/includes.html
especially read the include virtual part- that is probably what will help most...
what include virtual does is it will include an html document or text document wherever you want in a .shtml file. so you have a basic design and then when you want the pictures you would just put in the SSI and it would call the text document with html. i don't know if it's exactly what you want- but you'll only have to edit a text document when you want to change something- not the whole html file.
if you want a true cgi database it wouldn't be hard to make. but you'll need to read up on perl/cgi.
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[This message has been edited by Justin Stayton (edited 22 November 1999).]
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Anonymous posted this at 03:42 — 23rd November 1999.
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Great site - I was a huge transformer fan when I was younger. Sunstreaker was my favorite.
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