Includes and PHP

ptrau

Is there a way to use an "Include" of "exec" comment to run a PHP file from an shtml(SSI) page? I want to add a tall left menu to the browse page but don't want to use a frame. I will put the menu in the left column of a table and the browse.php in the right column where they will scroll together. I know how to "comment" exec cgi and pl programs and how to include text and html files with "include virtual". Neither of these seem to worlk with PHP.

Any ideas?

Anon

Make it a PHP-file:
<your html-codes go here>
<?php include("any_file.php"); ?>
<more html>
<?php include("any_other_file.html"); ?>
<even more html>
<?php virtual("any_script.pl"); / only if running as Apache module / ?>
<and more html>

Anon

Just a thought....

Break up your code into sections. Let's say you have a header, content and footer. Then create a page (index.php for this example) and do this...
<?
require("header.html");
require("content.html");
require("footer.html");
?>

Next question...suppose you want to include some standard stuff in the content.html page, then you could embed php require statements in that, maybe for buttons in a left column of a table.

Again...just a thought. I am new to this, but the above works for me. It also seems to work fine if you have other file extensions, not just html (for instance, .txt files).

sfullman

If I may weigh in on this matter, if the ONLY purpose for PHP is including headers or footers, then you should have a standard .html file and use templates in Macromedia Dreamweaver, or some other feature that will globally update the content.

PHP is fast but I don't see using it just for that feature alone.

Sam Fullman
Compass Point Media