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Sounds like you are looking for a templating system. It'll work slightly differently.

You take your static pages turn them into templates, then drive them with a CGI script. You can embed templates inside other templates (much like your the behavior you are looking at SSI for), so you can move your navigation into a footer area

The possibilties are endless :)

Some templating systems to look at:

  • Template Toolkit
  • HTML::Template
  • HTML::Mason (only on apache)



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    Re: #exec and $ENV{'PATH_INFO'}
    by Ionizor (Pilgrim) on Jun 10, 2002 at 00:43 UTC

      The problem I am running into is that the templating system isn't compatable with my current SSI setup. Modifying my current system to fit HTML::Template will take a great deal of thought and effort which I don't want to commit to it because I'm scrapping the current setup for a dynamic one as soon as I get the dynamic system developed.

      This request is for more of a quick fix while I'm building the dynamic site.

      SSI works great for the setup I currently have but it's far too limited for the interactive content that I'm now trying to build into the site so I need to ditch the system anyway.

      Thank you for your input; I'm sure it will come in handy while I'm building the dynamic site.

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