|
Server Side Include (SSI) commands are executed
by the server as it parses your HTML file. Server
side includes have a variety of uses including
displaying the date and time and adding a common
signature to each of your web pages.
HTML files containing SSI must be named with the
extension .shtml. SSI commands are easy to add to
your HTML, but you must follow the syntax
exactly:
<!--#command
cmd_argument="argument_value" -->
A summary of the most popular SSI commands
available on our servers are listed below. Please
note that whilst it is possible to execute a CGI
program from a server side include, this feature is
disabled on our systems due to the security issues
it presents.
The Echo Command
The echo command can be used to display the content
of the server side environment variables listed
below.
|
Variable
|
Description
|
|
Date_Local
|
Current date and time
|
|
Document_Name
|
File name of the main document
|
|
Document_URI
|
Path and file name of the main
document
|
|
Last_Modified
|
Date and time the main document was
last modified
|
For example, to include the current date and
time you would place the following code into your
HTML document:
<!--#echo
var="Date_Local" -->
The Fsize Command
The fsize command includes the size of a file, this
might be helpful if you were to include a thumbnail
image and want to display the actual file size of
the original image.
<!--#fsize
file="image.gif" -->
The Include Command
This command can be used to include a signature
file or company logo within an HTML document. The
added document or image will appear as if it were
part of the original document.
<!--#include
file="any.htm" -->
<
Back
|
