Menu Management Software?

**MikeSzyszka** · 11-23-2010, 08:11 AM

Sorry I have never used servers that did not allow SSI and should be more careful in my replies.
Yes, I forgot to mention a .htaccess file is required. Here is what works for me

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .htm
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
ErrorDocument 401 http://bearsystems.com/nopassword.html
ErrorDocument 403 http://bearsystems.com/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 http://bearsystems.com/nofile.html

**KatyS** · 11-24-2010, 01:19 AM

Am now slightly confused again... apart from what the host server may / may not be set up for is there any effective difference (from user or google's point of view) between using SSI versus PHP to do it??

PHP as suggested turned out to be easy to implement (apart from trying to put the include files anywhere other than root, which produced a path error about 'pear', so I put them back in root....)

site is the one in my sig; http://www.equinepainting.co.uk/
and is currently using

Code:

RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

in .htaccess
and

<body><?php include("header.htm"); ?>
variable content here
<?php include("menu.htm"); ?>
</body>

which seems to be generating pages that look / behave like static ones. Is there any disadvantage in doing it that way?

**HTMLBasicTutor** · 11-24-2010, 01:35 AM

I have mine set up like this:

Included pcs are in a folder called includes.

In .htaccess, after RewriteEngine On and my 301 permanent redirects fixing www vs non ww problem

Code:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .html .htm

In the pages I have:

PHP Code:


<?php include($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "includes/filename.txt"); ?>

In the robots.txt I have the instruction to please stay out.

If you put the included pcs in the root, then you have to solve the problem of stopping the search engines indexing.

**KatyS** · 11-24-2010, 01:58 AM

currently have the individual include files disallowed in robots txt

tried your suggestion
EDIT: test page removed

am back to

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'includes/header.htm' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') etc

error for both includes/header.htm and menu.txt

either there's something else missing in htaccess or that would seem to be a server set up problem... googling the error message brings up a load of stuff, none of which looks particularly helpful!

**HTMLBasicTutor** · 11-24-2010, 02:06 AM

Then put it back the way you had it until you figure out what is wrong.

**KatyS** · 11-24-2010, 02:09 AM

that was test page - also excluded.. but anyway yup not useful....

**williamc** · 11-24-2010, 05:25 AM

KatyS the way you originally had it should be fine. If you want the menu file in a seperate folder just change the include to look something like this:

Code:

<?php include("includes/menu.htm"); ?>

That is for pages that are in the root.

If you have pages in say domain.com/somedirectory/page.html and you have the menu.htm in a folder called includes in the root you would use:

Code:

<?php include("../includes/menu.htm"); ?>

etc.

**KatyS** · 11-24-2010, 06:25 AM

Code:

<?php include("includes/menu.htm"); ?>

was the first thing I tried but that gave same 'pear' error as above
(I understand that much of concept of file positions and the ../ bit, going up from sub-pages does work, it's just that putting include files in folder is refusing to work...)

have found this:
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about87.html

following instructions on that reply and adding
php_value include_path ".:/home/users/*****/html/equinepainting.co.uk/includes"
to .htaccess changes error message to:

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'includes/header.htm' for inclusion (include_path='.:/home/users/*****/html/equinepainting.co.uk/includes')

but still isn't finding file....

**williamc** · 11-24-2010, 06:33 AM

Create a file named something like: phpinfo.php

Add this one line to the file:

Code:

 <?php phpinfo(); ?>

Upload that to the folder you want the include file in, then aim your browser at phpinfo.php

look for this Area in the displayed results:

Environment

Under that heading, look for the variable: DOCUMENT_ROOT this variable will tell you the exact server path to that directory, ie: /home/builder/public_html/dev or whatever it is for your servers setup. That will give you the full path for your include statement.

When you are done, delete the phpinfo.php file as it contains information you will not want everyone seeing if it is found.

Nifty little trick you may want to remember for future use.

**KatyS** · 11-24-2010, 06:52 AM

thanks for that - it didn't directly solve the problem.... but did inadvertently as I discovered in the process I couldn't access file inside
/includes/ in browser either... despite ftp showing it in there.

Think my host must have some sort of default setting effecting that folder name which stops the php instruction finding it too...!??

changing folder name to /menus/ meant I could find and run the above ; which wasn't actually needed in the end as

<?php include("menus/menu.htm"); ?>

works fine without alteration to the .htaccess

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