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Posted 28 January 2009 - 07:52 PM

I just discovered that you can use includes in HTML tongue.gif

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<!--#include virtual="path to file/include-file.html" -->


I've always just used PHP for includes...

Does anyone use this method for simple websites? Are there any benefits or drawbacks?
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 07:57 PM

QUOTE (the matt @ Jan 28 2009, 12:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I just discovered that you can use includes in HTML tongue.gif

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<!--#include virtual="path to file/include-file.html" -->


I've always just used PHP for includes...

Does anyone use this method for simple websites? Are there any benefits or drawbacks?


PHP has an advantage.. Say you make a website with HTML includes, and at a later date you want to add more functionality, you would use PHP... So if you used PHP includes you would already have the extension of .php

Make sense?

Also, PHP includes are even simpler then the html ones, laugh.gif

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<?php include ('file.php'); ?>

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Posted 28 January 2009 - 08:06 PM

Yea that's true.

I guess I was just amazed that you could do HTML includes. I could have just used HTML instead of changing everything to PHP on some sites I've done in the past.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 08:07 PM

QUOTE (the matt @ Jan 28 2009, 01:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yea that's true.

I guess I was just amazed that you could do HTML includes. I could have just used HTML instead of changing everything to PHP on some sites I've done in the past.


True.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 08:15 PM

You're referring to SSI. Not all servers will parse .html files for these includes (their normal extension is .shtml). See the Server Side Includes Wikipedia page for a brief overview and some handy reference links.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 09:42 PM

So pretty much you can use .html and if your web server doesn't recognize this, use .shtml?
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 02:28 AM

Wow, lol. I have never seen this..
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 10:50 AM

Cool! I know it might seem odd but i think i would prefer to just stick a .php on the end of the file and use PHP's include method...
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 11:47 AM

Or just use htaccess so people don't see it's .shtml or .php
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 09:02 PM

QUOTE (Sam Granger @ Jan 29 2009, 03:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Or just use htaccess so people don't see it's .shtml or .php


How would I do that? Do you have a link or something?
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 10:08 PM

This is just from the top of my head but it should work.

For PHP:
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html $1\.php


For SHTML
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html $1\.shtml

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Posted 29 January 2009 - 11:59 PM

Wow, thanks Sam smile.gif
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