Including Headers and Footers
I wasn't sure whether or no to post this here or in the server-side scripting forum but here goes: Basically, I just want to have a separate file for my web page's header and footer, so that I can update one and it will update on all pages that use the header/footer. I thought SSI might have been the easiest way to do this but I must be doing it wrong. Here is the code I was using:
<!-- #include virtual="header.shtml" -->Is this incorrect? Or is there another way it could be done? I'd prefer to stick to XHTML and CSS for now but I don't mind putting a little PHP (or what ever is needed) in there.
Thanks.
Suzanne posted this at 23:31 — 3rd July 2004.
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No space.
Also, check alistapart.com for articles on for perhaps another option.
Colin Barnette posted this at 01:03 — 4th July 2004.
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Doh! Darn syntax!
Thanks.
Colin Barnette posted this at 01:23 — 4th July 2004.
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Edit: Nevermind me. The whole of the problem was that I didn't understand SSI to begin with. I thought that the webserver searched the document for SSI directives regardless of filetype, and would only load .shtml files. I didn't know you couldn't use SSI directives in .html. Doh.
Suzanne posted this at 03:14 — 4th July 2004.
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Heh, yeah, any server-side trickery requires the pages be parsed on the server -- and the extension identifies how to do it (usually).
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynanav/
Roo posted this at 05:19 — 4th July 2004.
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Link.........vewwwwwwy intewesting! I saw the link to that article on Zeldman's site but hadn't read it yet.
I wonder what the pros and cons of would be between using includes or this. I think I read that it's more taxing on the server to need to parse things using SSI, though not too much?
Roo
Suzanne posted this at 22:11 — 4th July 2004.
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I don't think it's as big an issue now -- in yesteryear, there was a real concern about CPU usage. You can still overload the server, but mainly it's an issue for big sites now.
Server-side includes allow you a lot more freedom and reliability, since they don't depend on browser support.
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