Ok, this post isn't for the Web-design challenged.

I'll admit it, PHP does scare me. When I used Blogger, I used Dotcomments. It took me a while to set it up and it scared me away from using PHP.

However, I still use .PHP for my Blogger archives. For everything else, I use SSI. My menu on the right of this page is nothing more than a text file that is called up by SSI when someone loads my page. I'm alright using SSI commands like <!--#include virtual="menu.txt"-->

I had read/heard that you can do the same with PHP. I just was too afraid to try it. Finally, tonight, I decided to test it out. First, I had to find the correct code. So what did I do? Google to the rescue! I came across Auburn University's help desk. It shows the code <? include ("filename"); ?>. I don't know if it will work for me but might as well try. And it did work for me. So now instead of worring about updating my old Blogger entries with new links everytime I add a new thing to my site, I can pull up my menu.txt file with them just like I do with all the other pages I have now.

Now that I know this, I guess I will have to play with PHP a bit with my guest book and links page. That way, if it works with them, I only will ever have to update one file to add links to my site.

Posted by Shawn at October 30, 2002 9:35 PM in General.