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Comment from Gamel on 2009-11-02

2009-11-03T02:28:12Z

Thank you! It works with an URL?

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Comment from cheap propecia on 2009-05-30

2009-05-30T21:20:11Z

Excellent site, It was pleasant to me.

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Comment from Bruce A. Julseth on 2008-08-03

2008-08-04T02:54:29Z

Couldn't get the included file to display correctly. Used php require_once("BaseMenu.php"): You can see the problem at URL: http://medical.julseth.net/disMP.php

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Comment from Leo on 2008-07-17

2008-07-17T17:14:07Z

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I've found that ".shtml", while common, is not at all
standard. It definitely pays to understand your specific web
server's configuration.

Also, scanning all .html (and .inc) is definitely possible,
and not a large performance hit at all. This site, for
example, is configured that way.

Leo

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Comment from Henry Leparskas on 2008-07-16

2008-07-16T15:36:03Z

for apache, when you want to use Server Side Includes, with the default configuration, you will have to have your file 'file.shtml' and not just 'file.html'. This is easy to trip over when you first start.
I believe that you can have apache look at all 'html' files for includes, but there is a penalty for this, which I can't recall -could be efficiency.

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Comment from sezer on 2008-07-13

2008-07-13T19:41:50Z

Html Attribute for -- Marquee Slide Image and Text ---
http://html-lesson.blogspot.com/2008/06/marquee-slide-image-text.html

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Comment from Volker on 2008-01-24

2008-01-24T08:53:08Z

Well, the code didn't show really well.
Here it is again, only with much less

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Comment from Volker on 2008-01-24

2008-01-24T08:43:25Z

I finally got my problem solved, which was not only a client side include, but a client side include where I had to calculate which include to include. (Did I make myself clear or what? ;-> )
I wanted to include the daily watchwords (see www.ebu.org) in my "Outlook Today" page.

This is my code (I hope it shows well):

function fuehrendeNull(wert)
{
if (wert")

If the cite-tags are showed, they are the ones which shouldn't show...
If it doesn't show at all or only very strange, my trick is to do a "document.write" that writes ANOTHER "script"-Statement, in which the variable is inserted.

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Comment from HELPFUL on 2007-11-23

2007-11-24T04:22:43Z

I READ THIS ARTICLE, IT DOESN'T HELP AT ALL FOR CLIENT SIDE SCRIPTS aka INCLUDING A FILE IN ANOTHER FILE...

HERE IS A VERY HELPFUL ARTICLE:

http://www.moock.org/webdesign/javascript/client-side-include/index.html

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Comment from David Smith on 2007-07-29

2007-07-29T09:19:52Z

Thank-you for the helpful info on %includes.
I've used them in programming in other non-web languages (PL1, JCL PL/SQL etc), but not in web context.

Text at top/left of web pages often contributes to a page's ranking for search engines. If this text is removed, a menu for example, to a seperate document (by any of the described methods) will this likely mean the page has a lower ranking with such keyword text omitted?

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Comment from jfk on 2007-05-25

2007-05-25T14:29:59Z

Hi Leo, thanks for this informative article.

Suggestion to all those who want to include html in html and don't know much about servers, php and or ssi: Use the client-side method described here. It's easy and it works as long as Javascript is not disabled on the visitors browser. For this case you still can add this:

cheers

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Comment from T.ashok kumar on 2007-05-12

2007-05-12T11:30:38Z

I've idea about how to write include syntax in a html file. http://www.seobbsr.com/

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-09-07

2006-09-07T18:36:13Z

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Comment from Kris on 2006-09-07

2006-09-07T13:29:03Z

dear Leo

i have got three files help.htm ,contact.php and ..inc
i have called the inc file inside teh php file
now i want to call this php file inside teh htm file , i.e when i click help.htm the contents of contact.php should called
i tried the below mentioned php tag on help.htm but all in vain. apprecaite your invaluable assistance

AXIS Engineering Consultants

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Comment from Mahesh on 2006-09-03

2006-09-04T04:56:12Z

I use the code
as u mensioned. and also
tested.
in my main html page. but it doesn't work.
I want to include my common header in to all pages.
Please help me.
Thanks

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Comment from Leo on 2006-06-11

2006-06-11T22:24:59Z

Check with your host - it may need to be enabled, or it may only be enabled for certain file extensions (like .shtml).

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Comment from skimaster18 on 2006-06-11

2006-06-11T17:41:17Z

i can't ge this to work. i am using apache, i admit fairly new with apache, but i have followed the steps numerous times to use SSI on apache, and everytime, it just completely ignores my include statement. using the correct context also.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-05-31

2006-06-01T05:48:18Z

a) you have a space between the "-" and the "#" - that's enough to have it fail.

b) the server must be configured to support SSI. You should check.

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Comment from Naseer on 2006-05-31

2006-06-01T05:43:56Z

Hi All,

Well i read all the solutions provided but i could'nt find any solution to my problem. i have two html files ie index.html and menu.html , i want to include the menu.html in my index.html. i used but its not working.. please provide me the better solution

regards
Naseer

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Comment from qixsilver on 2006-05-26

2006-05-26T20:11:34Z

Shraddhan,

If you're following the guidelines listed in this article, then technically everything should be ok. I was just fiddling around with this, and had some issues getting the includes to display properly. But by simply renaming my file from curious.html to curious.asp, the include then worked flawlessly. The include didn't care what the file extension was (html, asp, dat etc) for the file I used to hold the included data, it simply took what was in the included file and flowed it into the .asp file.

As an overview, I used 2 files:
- curious.asp
- content.dat

curious.asp holds:

include test

content.dat holds:

Stuff I wanna say and images I want to include etc.

A stumbling block that could be messing things up for you is: is the server that's hosting your files .asp compatible? if it's not, then your includes will not work. (using the format of: ). Hope that helps you out. To my knowledge, the framesets should not be causing a problem.

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Comment from Paul Evans on 2006-05-22

2006-05-22T16:12:54Z

Try using CSS and putting images as backgrounds to

within the HTML code.
Have a look at www.promotion-croisieres.com to see how this is done. Its a php file calling an include for the navbar, but the background image is tucked away in the CSS...

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Comment from Dave on 2006-01-17

2006-01-17T23:49:07Z

and again
obviously no tags allowed
#include VIRTUAL="/cgi-bin/GetRemote.pl?http://www.colosoccer.com.au/pentire.html"

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Comment from Joe Formtester on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T06:06:43Z

Hey, it looks like I got it to work with this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print get("http://www.comptonmfg.com/page1.txt");

Does that make sense? There's no getprint involved. I was just goofing around and, poof, it worked. Second question: If this DOES make sense, should that same script work with other Apache configurations (I'm assuming that people with ASP and PHP will be able to simply pull in the content from my page with just the appropriate include, skipping the script)?

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Comment from Joe Formtester on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T05:40:32Z

Here is how I'm hard coding the URL into the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl5.00405
use LWP::Simple;
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
getprint (http://www.comptonmfg.com/page1.txt);

And I'm referencing it like this in the shtml page file:

and it returns an error. Is this correct or am I missing something?

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Comment from Leo on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T05:05:41Z

Form the command line you have to specify the parameter using environment variables (set QUERY_STRING) and so on.

But yes, hard code a URL into the perl script instead of attempting to use the parameter and see if you can get that working.

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Comment from Joe Formtester on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T04:48:17Z

Well, running it from Telnet (if I'm even doing it correctly) yields the following error message:

No such file or directory

...as if it's looking for a file named proxy.pl?http://www.comptonmfg.com/page1.txt rather than actually going to the address in the query string.

I've adjusted the path to perl to a later version of perl. No help there. I'm an HTML guru, not a perl guru, so I am admittedly ignorant of a lot of this. How do I test getprint?

Also, I'm wondering if as small as this script is, it might not be overkill for my needs. What I mean is, if everyone who I want to use this script is going to be referencing the same page, is there an even simpler way; for example, embedding the actual URL in the proxy.pl script. That may be what we've achieved with the extra line of code, in which case we still have a getprint issue, but I thought it worth mentioning. The bottom line is if people will need to install the script anyway, and if the only thing I want them pulling data from is a pre-determined text file, is there a way to do that and bypass the query string altogether?

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Comment from Leo on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T04:20:34Z

It's possible that LWP is an issue, but then other things could be as well. I'd look at your error logs, and if you have shell access, telnet in or ssh in to the server and run the perl script directly from a command line and see if it does what you expect. See if you can get ANY "getprint" to work.

An alternative might be to try PHP if your server has it. A test.php in your regular (not cgi-bin) directory that has this will tell you if it would work:

This *may* work, if your PHP configuration has it enabled.

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Comment from Joe Formtester on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T04:15:12Z

Okay, that pulls in the URL, but not the contents of the URL.

The script now looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} . "\n";
getprint ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});

Using the http://www.tcconcepts.com/pagetest4.shtml link now pulls in text that reads "http://www.tcconcepts.com/page1.txt", rather than the HTML code that resides in that file.

Just curious. Could the fact that my version of LWP is 5.53 have anything to do with it? By the way, thanks for your help; I really appreciate it.

For what it's worth, what I'm trying to do is find a way to allow others (remote sites) to be able to insert an include (and perhaps a small cgi script like proxy.pl) that pulls actual code from a page on a site that I control. IF you have some other idea, I'm all for it.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T03:20:46Z

So just running http://tcconcepts.com/cgi-bin/proxy.pl?http://www.comptonmfg.com/page1.txt will test it outside of the SSI environment. It should just print the contents of the referenced file.

Obviously yours doesn't, and I'm not sure I see an obvious reason why. I would add a print statement before the getprint:

print $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} . "\n";

That should simply ensure that the QUERY_STRING is coming in correctly. If it is (and I'd guess it is) then I would suspect some kind of configuration issue on your server that's preventing getprint from working.

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Comment from Joe Formtester on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T02:58:36Z

Understood. But when that didn't work, I thought I'd try local. In any event, see:

http://www.tcconcepts.com/pagetest4.shtml where I'm using the following:

Again, the space is created, but no content fills it. To my non-Perl brain, this implies that it's seeing the need to insert something, but not what that something is.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T01:48:30Z

It's expecting a URL. So you'd want proxy.pl?http://whatever.... - that's the point of proxy.pl.

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Comment from Joe Formtester on 2005-12-18

2005-12-19T00:58:03Z

I cannot seem to get proxy.pl to work at all, even locally. Am I correct that the script file should simply be as follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
getprint ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});

Can someone please help? SSI is working fine locally, CGI is enabled, the script is chmod'd to 755 (as is the directory), and I've tried every variant thinkable for the links on the shtml pages. Please see the following examples:

At http://www.tcconcepts.com/pagetest1.shtml I'm using a normal include like so:

...which is pulling in the sample text (everything below the line) just fine from the referenced .txt file.

At http://tcconcepts.com/pagetest2.shtml I'm using:

At http://tcconcepts.com/pagetest3.shtml I'm using:

(note additional slash)

Neither of these latter pages (using proxy.pl) works. Nor do any other variants of the link including "./", "../" etc. I've also tried referencing different (later) versions of Perl. I'm not even getting error messages. The space is created, it's just not populated with the content. Any ideas?

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Comment from MetaNeko on 2005-11-20

2005-11-21T02:13:32Z

for people
require_once("./file.ext"); // Requires File only once
Require("./file.ext"); // Requires File
include("./file.ext"); // Includes file

Now I am learning php and im quite good at it so ill drop a few php methods.
I always have a tons of files.. i spread my code everywere and its neatly sorted. but sometimes like lets say you wanna make a dice script you would put
ReRoll";
?>

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Comment from Roland on 2005-09-18

2005-09-19T01:14:49Z

Glad I found this, I make extensive use of ssi includes I have spent ages trying to figure how to pass VARS to ssi, I see this can't be done.

I would like to have a page with a number of link to static pages like /product/1001.html and /product/1002.html and have them appear in the current page (without frames) when clicked

The closest I can get to this is by modifying your script proxy.pl, I'm am sure there is a more elegant way, especialy since the pages I am linking to are on the same website?
Regards Roly

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

open (FILE, "header.txt") || die "cannot open file: $!";
undef $/; # read in file all at once
print ;
close FILE;

getprint ($ENV{'QUERY_STRING'});

open (FILE, "footer.txt") || die "cannot open file: $!";
undef $/; # read in file all at once
print ;
close FILE;

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Comment from sindergoth on 2005-03-29

2005-03-30T01:38:35Z

this is just another more reliable verion of a previous post for php...

by doing it this way, you are making sure that the webserver no matter what brand will understand it, because >> alone is asp style..

the second choice >> include_once ensure that if a file being included to the page is already present it doesn't include it agaiin

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Comment from Robert Persig on 2005-02-11

2005-02-11T15:42:40Z

The local IT guru said: "It is not possible to include HTML code to an existing html file. You have to edit all these 500 files and change the header manually."
No comment! Of course it is possible to edit 500 files at once and change strings in them, provided your local IT hero has not decided to have Micro$oft as OS and Livelink as web server.
Anyway, this hint helped me solving the problem, the local IT superman gave me week to finish the job. I had a lot of fun during this week ;o)

Cheers.

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