| How to have an #include call another #include!
Can't believe I didn't think of this sooner |
MichaelBluejay
msg:4157362 | 4:53 am on Jun 23, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I use the .ssi extension for my includes, to differentiate the files on my server from pages. Early on I learned that my included file couldn't call another include. For example, if the "sidebar.ssi" code was:
The lamb lies down on Broadway.
<!--#include virtual="secondInclude.ssi"--> |
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then my page would show "The lamb..." sentence, but it would end there. It wouldn't pull in the secondInclude.
For years I thought that was a limitation of SSI, but it's not. The reason the second .ssi wasn't included is that the server didn't know to look for it, because I never told it to scan .ssi files for includes! All I had to do was add that to my .htaccess file:
| AddHandler server-parsed .html .ssi |
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And Ta-Da! Now includes can call other includes.
I hope this helps somebody.
By the way, when searching around about SSI extensions, I found this article on SSI extensions for refugees [nilc.org], which wasn't exactly what I was looking for.
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SEO_Shruti
msg:4181705 | 10:02 am on Aug 4, 2010 (gmt 0) |
You can also use it in other way. For that the same condition applies that ssi is enabled. You can include a html file in another file. Suppose, you want to include matter of file B.html in A.html include the code <!--#include file="b.html" --> where you want to place that content and save a.html to a.shtml
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