Server Side Includes?

[npaleech]

I'm just wondering if SSI is enabled or not. I'm making a site for someone, and SSI would make it a lot easier, but I could see the reasoning for it being disabled. So before I get started, I figured I'd ask if it's enabled.

[UnlimitedMB]

Its not enabled.
Just use php includes, its the same thing.

[npaleech]

Doesn't that strictly work for php files though? The person I'm making the site for doesn't know php. I was going to use SSI to pretty much mimic php includes function for my a header and footer, yet do it in a manner that the guy I'm making the site for will still understand. Just using php isn't a viable option in this case.

Unless you meant that php includes can, in fact, load a text file in the manner that SSI does.

[UnlimitedMB]

Name all your files .php but can be written in normal html then for includes use

<?php include("file.html"); ?>

If your the one making the site what difference does it mean if he understands it, your the one doing it. does he even know html or SSI?

[npaleech]

I'm making the site, after it's done it will be up to him to maintain it. Giving someone a site they don't understand defeats the purpose of making them one in the first place in my opinion.

I'll use this method instead though. I forgot that you can have normal HTML in a .php file. That should still be easy enough for him to understand.

Thanks for the tip, I'll just scrap using SSI from now on.

[wwe]

Well if you're making the site for the person then that kind of shows the person doesn't know how to do it himself though...

[backdoor]

It could also mean he is lazy like I was and just decided someone else should do it instead.