My First SSI - Worked! But Did I Do It Right?

Roo, I have used ssi on many of my sites.
I name the file to be included with a .shtml
(yes just like the one calling it)
I haven't as yet had any problems with that.
I generally don't call a whole page into another though,
just parts of one.

~bobbi

.inc or .txt or .html or .shtml -- it only needs to be .shtml if the included file contains further scripting.

If it works, hon, it's right. If it's not right, it won't work, period.

Whew! I've read so many things and some say .inc, and others say you can call other files. I've got the big fat black book in front of me now....it was sitting here staring at me, but I wasn't seeing it.

I was using a whole page for my custom error pages. Using the same one for everything until I actually get the site done.

Just a tip for you. If you have a page that has for instance a menu include and includes for headers and footers, precede the names with an "_" this will ensure they always show at the top of alphabeticlly file lists and stand out from your normal pages. ie:

_header.shtml
_footer.shtml
_menu.shtml

HOw do you call the menu , footer , header on to a page plz

As Bobbi said, as well -- make sure that your includes are not whole pages like with frames, but rather pieces only, like a single div that contains all the content or the navigation, et cetera.

Yeah I'm going to try using it to assemble a page with, so the tips are good! This first one was for my custom error pages. I wanted something, but until I settle on a new deisgn I'm using the same file for all of them.

Saurons:
I think...(and mind you I'm new with includes) that you'd just put

Or

In the area where you want to include these things. I'll be playing with this tomorrow....my freinds son is graduating in a few hours!

If you really need to include many files, it may be worth while to learn a little PHP.

With SSI you have:

With PHP you have:

http://bignosebird.com/ssi.shtml

I break my sites down into sections of code:
meta.shtml
header.shtml
navtop.shtml
ect.

You can break it up any way you want.

I had 2 different places bookmarked that had great easy to understand tuts on SSI's, but they are both gone now.
I think I have the web pages archived somewhere and will try to dig them.

I am assuming php works about the same way,
I haven't tried that route yet, but may experiment a bit this summer.

~bobbi