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I want to write a header and footer perl scrip that will return the headers and footers of my individual webpages. I was assuming I would do some sort of include of that file in the part of the html file I want it to appear. Is that the way I should go about this, if so how do I do that? If anyone has any other suggestions for better ways to do this, I’d be very interested. Thanks.
If your server supports it, check out server side includes. They don’t necessarily have to be written in Perl.
If not, and your headers and footers are simple, consider writing them in Javascript. It is easy to include a Javascript script in your HTML code that will make a bunch of
document.writecalls and you’ll be done.If not, and your headers and footers are not simple, and if you don’t know Javascript and if you might be a masochist, still consider using Javascript.
There are probably some other newer technologies to accomplish this that the young whippersnappers here can tell you about, but for me server-side includes and Javascript ain’t broke.