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[doogie88]

I'm a bit confused on something that is probably really simple.
How do people put their navigation bar on their pages, so it's one file?
Are they using PHP and just renaming the files to .html? Because you don't see a lot of php files on sites, or in rankings, always seems to be html.

[Michael Martinez]

There are a variety of ways including (but not necessarily limited to):

• Using a CMS that dynamically encodes the menu for you (Wordpress, for example)
• Placing the code in a Javascript file and linking to that from every page
• Placing the code in some other widget and linking to that from every page
• Placing the code on an iframed page and embedding that on every page
• Placing the code in a Perl or PHP include script
• Coding the menu by hand into every page

[Jill]

Or it could be in a server side include file.

[doogie88]

I think server side include is what I'm thinking of. That can be done with just html right?

[Michael Martinez]

Ack! I had actually intended to include "server side includes" when I composed that list, but I was doing it off the top of my head and ideas just kept floating in....

[qwerty]

I think server side include is what I'm thinking of. That can be done with just html right?

Sort of. An html page that utilizes SSI is actually a .shtml page. You can call your files page.shtml, or if you prefer another file type, you need to add a few lines to your .htaccess file (you actually need to add most of this even if you don't want the server to allow you to use a file type other than .shtml):

CODE

AddType text/html .shtml .html .htm
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml .html .htm
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes

[doogie88]

Okay, thanks a lot.