[Mr Fred]

need a really quick lesson

got a new client who wants to use old hosting company - they dont have php on servers

you see where this is going

ant advice about server side includes

cheers

[oli]

what do u need to know ?

http://www.carleton.ca/~dmcfet/html/ssi.html

[Mr Fred]

how can i write the link info ie in php it would be

index.php?doc=translation (this would load translation in #include

am i being stupid here?

[Stickman]

I think there's issues with search engines. Don't quote me on that though...

[sleepingfish]

wouldn't dare

[Mr Fred]

that will do me stickman

[Bill Posters]

Worth checking out this Sitepoint article:

Search Engine-Friendly URLs

Actually, whilst tracking down that article Google turned up a number of articles.

Google:
"search engine friendly urls"

Not sure how many are duplicates, but all worth checking, I'd imagine.

[Stickman]

Originally posted by sleepingfish
wouldn't dare

You still sulking?

[Brown]

i love em. used them all over the place. the pain is setting up the server but i get someone else to do that.

<!--#include virtual="/includes/leftnav.inc" -->

pm me if you get stuck but its pretty simple.

[Mr Fred]

i have grasped the include bit

how do i now code my link tags to include an #inc into a space define on index page

[Brown]

Originally posted by japanmik
how do i now code my link tags to include an #inc into a space define on index page

eh? wha'that mean?

stick it in a div, or between some <td></td> or summat.

<table><tr><td>
<!--#include virtual="/includes/leftnav.inc" -->
</td></tr></table>

<div id="my-divvy-div">
<!--#include virtual="/includes/leftnav.inc" -->
</div>

or is that not what you meant?

[Brown]

you can't call an include in like a frame. its part of the page, rendered on the server to html and sent to the browser.

use them for like nav's or footers or headers. geddit?

or don't i?

[Mr Fred]

well that completely defeats the object of #includes then doesnt it - what an utterly pointless technology

cant call an include in - then bollox - quick course in asp coming up

why you so stressed brown? not taking the tablets?

??

?!

[Stickman]

They are used for headers, footers, menus etc. It's not pointless technology - it's just a bit crap.

[Brown]

too much work on. still havn't found my monkey. need help.

you can't do that with asp either.

use iframes, frames or divs, or, just think of a proper way of building your site.

#includes are so that you can isolate a pice of code and reuse it across a whole site, then make one small change to it and it automatically updates across the site. now that's not pointless.

[Mr Fred]

Originally posted by Brown
too much work on. still havn't found my monkey. need help.

you can't do that with asp either.

use iframes, frames or divs, or, just think of a proper way of building your site.

#includes are so that you can isolate a pice of code and reuse it across a whole site, then make one small change to it and it automatically updates across the site. now that's not pointless.

aarrgghhhhh

the proper way would be to use coldfusion, asp. or php etc _ i can code all of these "good" sensible technologies to do all this to solve the problem. the problem is the server does not have any of these technologies

i dont think you have grasped what i am trying to do - this is due to my crap explanation.

ie <?php include('dsp_mainbar.php'); ?> for the include and this code to send all commands back though the index page and output in the same div location

<?php

//Test to see if there is any URL variable?

if(isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['doc']))
{
//If so then set $doc with the URL.variable
$doc = $HTTP_GET_VARS['doc'];
//The switch statement begins here
switch($doc)
{
case "services":

include("dsp_services.php");

break;

case "about":

include("dsp_about.php");

break;

whatever, i have decided to hard code the pages

and end to the matter......

[Mr Fred]

thanks to all for the advice folks

[Brown]

document.write

[Bill Posters]

Originally posted by Brown
document.write

BURN THE WITCH!! BURN THE WITCH!!