[albatross-users] Equivalent of PHP include

Tue Feb 17 14:25:44 EST 2004

>First question to the list, and probably a really dumb one to boot...
>
>I can't seem to find a simple equivalent to the PHP include directive. 
>I want to be able to insert the contents of a specified URL at some 
>point in a template, rather like a server side include. This is easy to 
>do using 'al-include' for a file but doesn't seem to work for a URL. I 
>kludged things by making a copy of the remote data in a local file and 
>using 'al-include'. I've also toyed with writing a macro to do this for 
>a general URL but it's such a simple thing to want to do I think I'm 
>missing something. Any clues appreciated.

You're not missing something - Albatross doesn't do this.

I wonder what PHP is doing? It's not a trivial exercise to include the
content of another page without breaking the rules of HTML - strictly
speaking, it should be stripping off the enclosing <HTML>, <BODY>,
etc elements (and even this might not be enough).

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