Hi,

I'm pretty new to HTML, so bear with me.

I'm working on a standard problem - I have multiple html pages with common content (header and footer). I want to have to update this common information in one place only.

My web research has lead me to SSI's and Javascript.

The SSI solution looks neat, but requires a new directive in my .htaccess if I want to hide the fact them I'm using SSI's (which I think I do). Also, this leads to an overhead on the part of the web server.

The JS solution also looks neat - embed the html within a document.write command in a text file and call this as a script from wherever I want to use it.

Question is: Am I missing something in either of these approaches (other advantages/disadvantages). Also, is there another (better) solution that coders prefer to use?

Thanks,
jomag

Does your server have PHP ?
make a file called test.php and paste in and let us know the results. Then you can use easy calls via the include command on PHP.

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I would use php includes or just use templates (if possible) in your web authoring software. Javascript might give you problems SEO wise and will add unnecessary bulk to the page.

For example to use a php include simply give your page a .php extension and put the code below in it.

Actually SSI is a server side include, just looked it up (acronyms!) so that's basically the php option if you're server has php. You shouldn't need to mess with a .htaccess to get it working but it depends on your setup I guess.

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you may want to have <?PHP instead of just <? (<? doesn't normally work by default .. it has to be set in the ini )

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Thanks for the fast replies guys. I had a feeling there would be a simple solution.

I've done a quick test as I'm running PHP, and it works just fine. I've a bit more work to do on the site and then I'll publish and ask for a critique.

Thanks again.

jomag