With most web hosts now offering Server Side Includes, it would be great if WeBuilder had an option whereby the web designer could test her web pages whenever a Server Side Includes function is called.
For example, changing a drop-down menu on each web page is easy with SSI as you only have to have the one menu file, which is inserted into each page when it is loaded.
The problem arises when trying to verify that the page works as you expect it to BEFORE uploading it to the host. Currently there are two alternatives: 1) upload it and see how it works, or 2) load a copy of the Apache server on your machine and test it as if you were the host. Both take you away from WeBuilder.
It would be so much more efficient to be able to do that within WeBuilder as you are building your site.
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syrupcore
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Hi. Welcome to the forum.
Is there a reason you're not using PHP for this? just as easy and not server dependent. SSI is, I believe, apache only. Additionally, you can pass params and stuff to a php include. So, if you wanted to say, include you're entire header area as an include, you would be able to pass variables for the page title and meta tags and so on.
<? include("/path/to/menu.php"); ?>
Is there a reason you're not using PHP for this? just as easy and not server dependent. SSI is, I believe, apache only. Additionally, you can pass params and stuff to a php include. So, if you wanted to say, include you're entire header area as an include, you would be able to pass variables for the page title and meta tags and so on.
<? include("/path/to/menu.php"); ?>