Passing variables through SSI includes

[Jakotsu]

The shared menu I'm about to implement through SSI has the following iframe to show ads:

<iframe align="center" src="xml_728x90.php?as_categ_id=1655" width="736" height="76" scrolling="no" marginwidth="1" marginheight="1" name="MLAD" border="0" frameborder="0">
</iframe>

However, the value for as_categ_id must change from page to page. The question is, how can I set this value when showing the menu using an shtm include such as:

<!--#include file="menu.htm" -->

It seems I can send variables through SSI, but I'll also have to modify the menu.html to accept them, if someone can tell me how to implement this I will really appreciate it.

[encyclo]

Is there any way of replacing your SSI with PHP includes? I don't believe you are going to be able to pass the appropriate variables with SSI, whereas with PHP you can set your

as_categ_id

variable in relation to the page URL, for example.

[kaled]

This might work

<!--#include virtual="menu.htm?param1=value1&param2=value2" -->

You would then have to use location.href.search to access the parameters.

Kaled.

[Jakotsu]

Thanks, indeed I'm using PHP now. The only problem I have now is that I want to pass the page title, which has spaces; using & nspb does not work at all because the & char is a variable delimiter.

This is what I have now:

<?php include("http://mysiteurl.org/header.php?title=Page Title Goes Here&as_categ_id=1652");?>

How can I include spaces in the title variable?

Thanks!

[Jakotsu]

Nevermind, I already got it by sending spaces as "_" and using the str_replace function:

$title=str_replace("_", " ", $title);

Darn I'm good. :)

[kaled]

The usual way to encode space in urls is %20

Kaled.

[JeffSela]

It's also usually safe to use '+' as an encoding of spaces, for example:

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