template html pages

[RedShoe]

Does anyone know of a script that will create a webpage using a template, like a header, then a footer?

I can do it with my message board in my cgi-bin, but I don't know how to do it outside of the gci-bin.

The goal is to build a site that uses a template, so that one html page will control the whole layout of the site. Updating would mean simply changing one page.

Any ideas?
What would I use? JavaScript? DHTML? HTML? CGI?



[This message has been edited by RedShoe (edited 04-09-2001).]

[Susan]

Lots of scripts here for doing that
http://www.perlarchive.com

[cygnet74]

I use PHP code for this on my galleries. In fact all the galleries at mygirlz.com refer to another document for their basic layout. This saves tons of time if I want to change banners, number of thumbs, et cetera. Anyway, the point of this post is to recommend learning the PHP language. It is extremely easy to implement -- much easier than writing cgi scripts. This is mainly because the code is embedded in your html document the same way that javascript is. The difference is that unlike javascript, PHP is not dependent on the client's browser for decoding making it susceptable to the surfer's option of having it off. Instead PHP is processed by the server. Another benefit of having the server process the code is that no evidence of it shows up in the source code, unlike javascript. Anyway, go to the following url for more info.
http://www.php.net

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Addison Brock III
webmaster at MyGirlz.com
traffic trade?

[This message has been edited by cygnet74 (edited 04-11-2001).]