There are
times when you will have certain information that you repeat in
numerous documents on the server, like your signature, or a thank-you
note. In cases like this, it's efficient to have that information
stored in a file, and insert that file into your various HTML
documents with the SSI include command. Suppose
you have a signature file like the following stored in address.html:
<HR>
<ADDRESS>
<PRE>
Shishir Gundavaram WWW Software, Inc.
White Street 90 Sherman Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
[email protected]
The address information was last modified Friday, 22-Dec-95 12:43:00 EST.
</PRE>
</ADDRESS>
You can include the contents of this file in any other HTML
document with the following command:
<!--#include file="address.html"-->
This will include address.html located
in the current directory into another document. You can also use
the virtual parameter with the include
command to insert a file from a directory relative to the server
root:
<!--#include virtual="/public/address.html"-->
For our final example, let's include a boilerplate file that
contains embedded SSI directives. Here is the address file (address.shtml)
with an embedded echo command (note the .shtml
extension):
<HR>
<ADDRESS>
<PRE>
Shishir Gundavaram WWW Software, Inc.
White Street 90 Sherman Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
[email protected]
The address information was last modified on <!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED"-->.
</PRE>
</ADDRESS>
When you include this address file into an HTML
document, it will contain your signature along with the date the
file was last modified.
