<!--#!include???

[wickss]

I am trying to pull up another html document within a table cell. I have a reference book that says to use the <!--#include...> tage for html docs and <!--#exec...> for cgi scripts. All other references indicated that this is strictly a comment tag. The browsers always seem to ignore this tag. How can I pull up information from a perl script or other html document to my page?

[C@L]

Well thats not how to do it

for html i would recommend iframes

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<iframe src="iframe.html">if you can read this your browser does not support iframes</iframe>

however the best way would be php

if you know php and your server allows it then....

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<?
include ("yourfile.html");
?>

hope that helps


C@L

[grommit]

Yep the PHP-way is much better.
But remember that the HTML-file you include will act lik its in the calling file.
So if you include a file like page\blabla.html and you have images in the paths to this images wont work anymore because blabla.html isn't in the page directory it will act like its in the calling file directory.
Hope you get my crappy explanation.

[wickss]

Thanks. This was helpful. Especially about the <iframe> tag. I don't know php yet but I'll probably learn it after I get finished with Perl.

I figured out the reason the Include tag didn't work. My server doesn't support Server Side Includes.

[joshcxa]

you don't need to know much php to use php includes. just remember that your document extension ends in .php instead of .htm