Gossamer Forum: Products: Links 2.0: Customization: Enhanced template! Can I include a file outside template directory?

Apr 19, 2002, 1:41 AM

rsahertian

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Apr 19, 2002, 1:41 AM

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Enhanced template! Can I include a file outside template directory?

Hello everybody,

Ok, ok
It's mentioned several times in this forum. I know!!
But a search through all related questions brings me nowhere!
Some say it won't work and some say it doesn't.

Can somebody give me a solution answer for this please:

I use the enhanced template.pm to include a file. I works great without SSI!! Great work! But this one only wants to include a file that's in the template directory. But I want to include a file that's outside this directory.

Sorry again. mentioned many times before in the forum, but I can't find the solution.

Thanx,
Ron
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Apr 19, 2002, 10:50 AM

esm

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Apr 19, 2002, 10:50 AM

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well, I am certainly no expert but....

I installed the enhanced templates mod. As I recall while I could run the standard templates with the <%include filename.txt%>, I had a problem trying to include non-links pages with the following:

Code:
 <!--#include virtual="/home/acct/cgi-bin/links/admin/templates/banners.html" -->

So, I moved my templates to a folder outside the cgi-bin folder:

from: /home/acct/cgi-bin/links/admin/templates ( as I recall )

to: /home/acct/public_html/templates

and reset the templates path in links.cfg

this allowed me to use the same code for both the links and non-links pages and I was ( and remain ) a happy camper!!!

I will leave it up to the experts as to whether or not you can use the <%include xxxxxx%> for non-links pages. I couldn't but maybe there is a way.

And so that I did not have to rename all my files from htm to html, to my .htacces file I added

Code:
 AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

Maybe I was just lucky....

That's all I know, I don't know no more!!! Crazy

Gene
"The older I get, the more I admire competence, just simple competence in any field from adultery to zoology."

Apr 19, 2002, 11:00 AM

Andy

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Apr 19, 2002, 11:00 AM

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Either that, or edit the enhanced template mod to not look in the templates folder, but rather take the position sent via the tag. I.e, instead of using;

<%include test.txt%>

use somethig like;

<%include /home/site.com/public_html/file.txt%>

I'm just off out now...so I can't be definate on this answer..if its still not answered by the morning, I'll have a go :)

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk