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Topic: Use of SSI or CGI in templates

Trying

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Hi

Hopefully somebody could help me here with these couple of queries:-

1. My understaanding is that you cannot use ssi within the templates - is that correct? (something to do with the parsing?)

2. I used to maintain my menus/text adverts over multiple pages via ssi as it made updating extremely simple. I wish to use the 'defined custom templates' option but do not want to have to update every template when I make an alteration. Temporarily to overcome this I am experimenting with 'html rotate' (pretty good!!!) but I am concerned that in some circumstances this could be problematic i.e. someone has java un-enabled , and hence my navigation menus would fail to show. Therefore is there a way of incorporating an additional cgi script to handle this ?

I am definately a newbie at this but I have experimented with tsbuild and calling an additional script - however it won't run the script and comes back with the following error:-

Can't modify bitwise and in scalar assignment at /home/sites/www.foo.co.uk/web/cgi-bin/plugit.pl line 9, near mainmenu.txt;

As I said I am no expert so I would appreciate any help that you can provide. This is the script I am using:-

*****************************************************
#!/usr/bin/perl

sub PlugIt
{
$plugit=mainmenu.txt;

open (PLUG,$plugit) | | die can't open $plugout;
$plugit=mainmenu.txt;
while ( ){$plugit .=$_;}
close(PLUG);

print Content-type: text/html\n\n;
print $plugit;

}
1;
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and I am calling it by using the following:-

%%plugit%%

Is the script OK? am I calling it correctly? Is it actually possible to do this?

like I said any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks in advance

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If you run an HTML generated directory you can use SSI's in generated pages.

Ver 2.0 has built in 'includes' that you can use like SSI's in any templates.

The script should look something like this:
(You need qoutes around the file names.)

*****************************************************
#!/usr/bin/perl

sub PlugIt

{

$plugit="/server/path/to/mainmenu.txt ";

open (PLUG,$plugit) | | die can't open $plugout;

while (defined($line=<PLUG>))

{$plugit = $plugit . $line;}

close(PLUG);

print Content-type: text/html\n\n;

print $plugit;

}

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Miles
Miles

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Trying

New Member

Many Thanks - Miles!

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