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intelliot · 08-27-2007, 09:08 PM

To dynamically include other files in your page, your server needs to support some kind of scripting language. This can be PHP or SSI, the most commonly-used ones. See Wikipedia for more info on Server Side Includes.

It's possible to do client-side includes (plain HTML), but I don't recommend this route.

Note that it's possible to make your webserver interpret SSI commands on HTML pages - just make a change to your .htaccess file. This requires a Unix-based server, such as Linux.

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intelliot Google Guru Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 2,527 Thanks: 15 Thanked 49 Times in 28 Posts	To dynamically include other files in your page, your server needs to support some kind of scripting language. This can be PHP or SSI, the most commonly-used ones. See Wikipedia for more info on Server Side Includes. It's possible to do client-side includes (plain HTML), but I don't recommend this route. Note that it's possible to make your webserver interpret SSI commands on HTML pages - just make a change to your .htaccess file. This requires a Unix-based server, such as Linux.