I am trying to find a way of having one file with text in it that displays on several other websites. Currently, when I update the text, I have to go to each invidivual website and update it. I would like to update just one file and have all of the websites update instead.
Does anyone know how to pull this off? Thanks!
Renegade posted this at 09:07 — 11th January 2006.
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Well, one way I can think of would be to use an include.
If your hosts support PHP, then you can add this line to your code:
<?phpinclude("http://www.domain.com/includes/file.txt\");
?>
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demonhale posted this at 13:56 — 11th January 2006.
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a php include or an iframe can be used for this
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 14:02 — 11th January 2006.
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Depending on the nature of your updated text, using an RSS feed might be a good fit.
What is the text? Mainly, is it small?
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timjpriebe posted this at 17:24 — 11th January 2006.
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If all the sites are on the same server, you could pull the content from a database.
My full portfolio is on this site: tandswebdesign.com
My partial, religious-site portfolio is here: churchesofchristonline.com
They both pull from the same database.
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airoid3000 posted this at 04:55 — 12th January 2006.
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I forgot to mention I need to keep the style's on the individual websites, which I can not do with an iframe. Also, not all of the pages are php pages, so I can do a php include.
Any other suggestions? It is only the copyright information at the bottom of the page. Would an RSS feed be a good idea? If so, please let me know how this works. Thanks.
demonhale posted this at 05:21 — 12th January 2006.
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all regular html files can be saved as php then insert your include strings for the pages...
Renegade posted this at 06:49 — 12th January 2006.
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Or, what you can do is use javascript.
Have something like:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.domain.com/scripts/footer.js"></script>'
In the .js file, have something like:
document.write("<p>This is the footer</p>");document.write("<p>This is is another paragraph</p>");
'
Quite tedius, but it works, I guess
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demonhale posted this at 06:52 — 12th January 2006.
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not unless of course the browser doesnt support javascript or its turned off
airoid3000 posted this at 19:28 — 12th January 2006.
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Would you recommend renaming the thousands of pages I have to PHP or using javascript?
Can't I just do a tag for browsers without javascript? This wouldn't allow for updates but at least I can show the © without the year.
timjpriebe posted this at 19:36 — 12th January 2006.
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You don't actually have to rename them to PHP. Your htaccess file can be set up to interpret all html as php.
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airoid3000 posted this at 05:33 — 13th January 2006.
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I added a system wide mime type to recognize html as php. It's working perfectly, thanks!
airoid3000 posted this at 21:08 — 14th January 2006.
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Okay, I ran into one problem. I tried to add .shtml pages to be recognized as php, but apparently you can not have the handler "server-parsed" and php at the same time.
Does anyone know of a way around this?
chrishirst posted this at 10:13 — 15th January 2006.
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There isn't one, Only one handler can exist for any extension.