Quick 'Q' about ASP...

**Xx MOTU xX** · 05-07-2004, 02:11 PM

I'll be honest up front - I am no programmer. In fact I just learned HTML as of February. However I've taken to it rather well, and I've design a troubleshooting website for the corperate helpdesk I work on. Content is going to constantly change so I was going to use the 1 command I know in PHP to help keep maintenance low.

Simply input

<?
include menu.php
>

This would let me have a file called ' menu.php ' that I could just use the command line above on all the pages I make, but only have to maintain 'menu.php' to implement the menu change site wide. ( Take no offence - I know you guys fully understand what I mean - I'm only dumbing it down so you know exactly what function I'm needing )

For some reason the server admin will not let me use PHP extentions even though PHP 5 is loaded on the server.

So at long last, my question is : Can I use the .asp extention and use a similar command that does the same thing without having to mess with a database. I guess I could learn how to use a database if necessary.

Many Thanks.

**techwench** · 05-07-2004, 02:16 PM

Yup. Sure can.

Code:

<!--#include file="filename.asp"-->

**Xx MOTU xX** · 05-07-2004, 02:27 PM

Simply put - I love you

That is going to save me so much time. Many Thanks!

**Xx MOTU xX** · 05-07-2004, 03:27 PM

Hmmm..would it cause difficulties if there are no server side scripts run ??

Got an error first time testing. The web admin here said that there are no server side scripts run that it would need to be 'client' side.

Or perhaps I did it wrong.

Named a file called ' test.asp ' that look like :

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>


</BODY>
</HTML>

Is there anything wrong with this set up ?

**Anacrusis** · 05-07-2004, 09:57 PM

You did it right.
Without server side includes (SSI) or php, your only other option is javascript, it's a little bit more of a pain though.
See here:
http://javascript.about.com/library/.../aa102901a.htm