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Using Includes (SSI/PHP)

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Using Includes (SSI/PHP)

More questions, I know you love them Smiling Face .

On my front page I also have a number of includes, all using SSI and most including .txt files (example below includes output from a PHP) from forums and other output. Here's one example I use:

<!--#include virtual="../../rss/feed2html.php"-->

 http://www.ispreview.co.uk/rss/feed2html.php

There's also this for the easier .txt file include:

<!--#include virtual="../../review/latest.txt"-->

 http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/latest.txt

Now I've tried adjusting the ../../ bit to the direct path depth and it works from my CT dir in a test.shtml file but not from inside CT. I've also tried a php include, although this doesn't work either and I can't use that for the RSS include anyway because that's from another .php script. What's the best solution here?

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1 Re: Using Includes (SSI/PHP)
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Try to replace include() with virtual():

virtual("rss/feed2html.php");


virtual() seems to have the same functionality that SSI offers, but it will not work on all servers.
1 Re: Using Includes (SSI/PHP)
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OP 9
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That works for flat text files, but the PHP RSS output and my own survey system (that I intend to keep because it's well indexed and recognised) generate their content semi-dynamically. So how would I go about showing this in the style?

 http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/polls/ssi.cgi?08hours

Obviously this would normally be called with SSI.
1 Re: Using Includes (SSI/PHP)
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You can't use server side includes in the templates; instead you need to do it with PHP.

Here an example to include the output of an external PHP script:

PHP Part:

ob_start();

include("rss/feed2html.php");

$feed2html = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_clean();


HTML Part:

{$feed2html}


To include a text file:

PHP Part:

$tfile = fopen("review/latest.txt","r");

$latest_reviews = fgets($tfile, 4096);

fclose($tfile);


HTML Part:

{$latest_reviews}

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