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Hi, I am building a blog where each page on the blog should have a top and side navigation menubar. I could put the menubar code in a template and include the template within all other templates, however the problem is that I do not own the navigation menubars and they are availabe as html pages within the directory structure or through http urls like http://something/topmenu.shtml.

Are there any solutions to include content from other html pages within a template ? I am not sure if I can create EE templates as shtml pages…If that was possible I could create all my pages as shtml’s and use dynamic includes to include the external pages.

Would appreciate any help.

Thanks
-Daman

You could use PHP includes for this as long as you enable PHP parsing in the template =)

You can use PHP to do this.

Something like this:

<?php include("/path/to/filename.shtml") ?>

Where PHP is parsed on input.

It’s just a bit more work, but it’ll work for you.

Does that make sense?

You could still use an embed by making a separate template that has the php include in it.

Thanks Lisa/Sue…I am new to PHP so wasn’t aware of the include function.

So…I created a blank template with just the include statement. I also set the template to allow PHP on input, however viewing the template through the browser serves a blank page. It looks like that the include statement is completely being ignored. Any ideas ?

Thx

You need to be careful of the path to the file. What does that look like?

I tried including html content from a url within our company firewall like below…which didn’t work.

<?php include("http://someserver/index.shtml"); ?>

Including html from my local machine works though

<?php include("/localDirectory/index.shtml"); ?>

Hi everybody,

I just tried to achieve the same. So I made an extra include page, set the preferences for this file to PHP “Yes” and “On Input”, calling it in the EE template by {embed="inludes/file"} and get these messages:

Warning: Unknown(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /usr/www/users/......./core/core.functions.php(635) : eval()‘d code on line 1

Warning: Unknown(http://www.xxx.de/yyy.html): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /usr/www/users/.../core/core.functions.php(635) : eval()‘d code on line 1

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening ‘http://www.steuerlex.de/cnt93173/aktuell.html’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php/’) in /usr/www/users/..../core/core.functions.php(635) : eval()‘d code on line 1

Any ideas for me? Thanks, Wolfram.

Hi, I ran into the same.

You would need to go into your php.ini file and set the parameter allow_url_include to “On”.
That did it for me. Make sure to restart your server.
If you are on a hosted solution, you might need to talk to the provider to set this parameter.

-Daman

Thank you, Daman! It´s a hosted site. I hope these people can / are willing to change it. Otherwise, it´s back to frames, I guess?
Wolfram

Thank you, Daman - just to confirm: Yes, many, many sites disable PHP includes by URL for reasons that I’m not familiar with; but it is not uncommon.