[kwlug-disc] Can someone help?

[Raul Suarez]

Shane,

There are many different ways for achieving what you want.

You didn't specify if your web site is dynamic content or static content so I'll respond to both:

Dynamic content (content driven by a program running on the server):

- Using server side assembly of the page; You can use PHP, JSP, ASP, Ruby on Rails, etc... To populate the contents of your page into a standard template. Requires some programming.
- You could use AJAX (HttpRequest) to bring the contents of the header.

Static Content (Content that does not change between calls to the same page)
- Using frames: Frowned uppon these days but very popular in the old days. I won't go into detail why it's not good but you can search.
- Clone the content of the header and apply the format (position, colours, etc) using CSS. This only works when you have a limited number of pages as changes to the header would require changing every page.
- Write a simple script that will concatenate a "header" page with the "body" of each page. Whenever there is a new page, you run the script on it. Whenever the header changes, you run the script for all pages.
- Using <iframe> where you can insert the contents of another web page into your page.

I hope one of these is the one you remember.

Raul Suarez

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--- On Wed, 5/5/10, Shane <shane.msg at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Shane <shane.msg at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Can someone help?
> To: "KWLUG" <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Received: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 9:53 AM
> Thanks.  There used to be an
> easier way using an attribute of - I believe it was the
> "<a" tag.  It was told that when the page was
> loaded, insert the contents of the external
> file.   Progress.
> 
> Now I have to go back into the fog to try and figure out
> what it was.  Not for any practical reason - just to
> know. 
> 
> ================It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
> it's the size of the fight in the dog.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "John Van Ostrand" <john at netdirect.ca>
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 07:43:18 
> To: <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Can someone help?
> 
> The easiest way we do this is using PHP.
> Create header.php as the header including HEAD and BODY
> tags. Then create 
> page.php with only HTML.
> 
> Then create .htaccess file and use php's directive
> "auto_prepend_file" 
> giving header.php as the file. I don't recal the exact
> syntax, search for 
> that directive.
> 
> Then the header.php file is called every time page.php is
> called.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org
> <kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org>
> To: KWLUG <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> Sent: Wed May 05 01:46:43 2010
> Subject: [kwlug-disc] Can someone help?
> 
> This is not specific to Linux.  I am playing with
> website development and 
> the number of pages is growing.  The problem is that I
> want to keep the page 
> heading area the same on all pages.  If it becomes
> necessary to change the 
> page head I'd rather not have to do 36 changes; 36 now.
> 
> When I did this before, there was a way by setting a
> separate document and 
> calling copies of it whenever the page was loaded,
> automatically setting up 
> the heading.
> 
> Trouble is, I forget how to do it and I can't remember what
> this process of 
> inserting text from other files is called so I have been
> unable to look it 
> up.  I've tried many possibilities but nothing has
> worked.
> ================It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
> it's the size of 
> the fight in the dog.
> 
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