Preserved Topic: SSI

Having been fed up with other text editors that just didn't have all the features I wanted, I'm in the middle of creating my own with Visual Basic to use for making my web sites. One of the features that I've put in it so far is the ability to stick an outside file into an html file so that when the outside file changes, so does every file that it's included in. I'm pretty sure that this is a trick that can be done with SSI, so I thought, why not immitate some other SSI features?

However, I've never worked with SSI before, and I'm not familiar with all the features. Could someone maybe list the ones that I might find useful to immitate? If anyone feels like taking a few minutes to do this, I'd appreciate it. It's not necessary, but it would make for a better program. Thanks!

-Slime

"Windows: Just another pane in the glass."

Well, I can say that http://alumweb.mit.edu/reference/ssi/index.shtml is the place I go for SSI info, and I've used most of those parametes. I like the config and echo tags, but include and exec are popular as well.

this probably doesn't help, it's just me spouting off!

Pat Richard
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The best is the virtual include
<!--#include virtual="file/path/here.txt"-->

Thats the one that pretty much does exactly what you are talking about.

I also like the echo command
<!--#echo var="ENV_VARIABLE_HERE"-->

I use this a lot its really cool for creating templates.

<!--#echo var="QUERY_STRING"-->
There are also the time format ones but I don't use them much.

The last is the exec command but it's not really used that much for security reasons



Walking the Earth like Kane

The best is the virtual include
<!--#include virtual="file/path/here.txt"-->

Thats the one that pretty much does exactly what you are talking about.

I also like the echo command
<!--#echo var="ENV_VARIABLE_HERE"-->

I use this a lot its really cool for creating templates.

<!--#echo var="QUERY_STRING"-->
There are also the time format ones but I don't use them much.

The last is the exec command but it's not really used that much for security reasons



Walking the Earth like Kane

well, the exec command is nice if you want to run a cgi within a page. If we wanted to run these forums from within our gurusnetwork.com templates, we could do it that way.

I use the echo command to show the date, and have played with the Query_String option once for dynamic content. Very cool.

Pat Richard
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Hmmm. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I can use much of this after all. Most of it requires being run on the server itself; mine is just run when a file is saved. Thanks anyway!

Oh sure, get us all worked up....... <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

Pat Richard
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