SSI help

[WildWayz]

Hi ya

Most of my site is made up of SSI calls, but I have hit a problem.
Because the file extensions have to be .shtml on my webserver, I call a text file called toplinks.txt which contains the top links of my site.
In there, I want to make an SSI call to a random quote, but because it is a .txt file, it won't allow it.

Is there anyway to bypass it?

--James

[doron]

you mean nested ssi calls?

(ssi calls toplinks.txt, which has a ssi call in it?)

I don't think it is possible, what you might want to do is split the file into the part above and below the nested ssi call

[kenaal]

If you are using PHP, bugger SSI and use include(). You can recursively call as many files as you want, php or not.

-Kenneth

[WildWayz]

urm... please can you explain it a little more? :)

I am a newbie ;)

--WildWayz

PS - also, how can I do it so .php pages are shown if no HTML files are in the dir? At the moment, if an index.htm/l file isn't found, then it shows a dir listing.

[eva2000]

i also need to know how to do php include calls :)

wildwayz... if you're still using webmin , the directory problem can be solved through webmin... that's how i got http://animeboards.net/forums/

to requet the index.php file

[WildWayz]

Lo,

I have Webmin on my dedicated host, but because the server is hush-hush the admin isn't helping me.
And Apache isn't setup and I have no idea how to get it working LOL

MySQL works on it tho ;)

--James

[eva2000]

get your host to set it up...

[thetakerfan]

<?php
require ('shtml/tophome.html');
require ('shtml/topnavstrip.html');
require ('shtml/topextrastrip.html');
require ('shtml/topsearch.html');
?>
I think its something like that, if not I'd have to check my page code, I'm pretty sure thats what it is
Require is better than the include function, I think

[WebStyles]

You just need to make the toplinks.txt have a .shtml extension, then you can nest the SSI's. :)

[thetakerfan]

that'll work too