SSI
Defined
Server Side Includes (SSI) are a popular solution
on the Web because of their browser compatibility—most
of the work is performed by the server. You
can use SSI commands on your Web pages to
insert content from another part of your site,
creating a dynamic result. Web pages that
contain an SSI will be processed or parsed
by the server before displaying back on the
page, very similar to the scripting process.
The combination of static HTML page and the
SSI files will be seamlessly displayed in
the Web browser.
Web servers rely on a unique
file extension to recognize an SSI, but
each server is different. Initially, they
required the *.ssi extension to process
SSIs. Our servers require one of two file
extensions to process SSIs in your Web pages:
*.stm
*.shtml
For example, a home page
might be index.shtml instead of index.html.
The below example illustrates the correct
syntax for a SSI command in your Web pages:
<!--#command argument="value"-->
This is a common SSI command.
You could have chosen the echo, include,
or confab commands instead of command. The
argument attribute gives further instruction
for the treatment of the SSI. Each SSI has
its own set of arguments and values.
A popular SSI value is the
include command. This command tells the
server to insert text from a specified file
into the Web page before delivering it to
the browser. If you wanted a copyright statement
or ‘last updated’ statement at
the bottom of each page, you could use this
SSI command on the bottom of each page.
The syntax for this SSI command appears
as follows:
<!--#include file="filename.ext"-->
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