Thanks so much, Joshua, for your helpful reply.
When you say,
First, it is not necessary to rename your files to use PHP. PHP can
be configured to work on any extension, not just .php
I take it that you mean I can configure PHP to parse all .html files
in a web directory, by using an .htaccess file. If I do that, will I
run the risk of a major slow-down of my site?
Doug
On 7/25/05, Doug Lipman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use SSI (via XBitHack) to include a file or a bit of
text in certain existing web pages only until a date I set in code.
In other words, I want my pages to display certain text until an
expiration date, and only until then. I know how to do this in PHP,
but I don't want to have to rename my files from .html.
First, it is not necessary to rename your files to use PHP. PHP can
be configured to work on any extension, not just .php.
This is how I've approached the problem:
<!--#set var="now_date" value="$DATE_LOCAL"-->
<!--#set var="exp_date" value="[something goes here that is
based on the date I want the include-file to stop appearing]"-->
<!--#if expr='"now_date > exp_date"' -->
<!--#include virtual="../../includes/file_to_include.inc" -->
<!--#endif -->
Here are my questions:
1. In the third line above, would now_date (derived from DATE_LOCAL)
be in Unix time? Or else in what form?
See
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_include.html
where you will find the "timefmt" option of the "config" element.
2. Is there a function I can call in the second line above to encode
a date into Unix time (or whatever the answer is to my first
question?)
Not as part of SSI. You can generate that using standard time
functions under c/perl/python/whatever.
Or, is there a better way to approach this problem?
mod_rewrite can do rewriting conditional on date, which is an
alternative approach.
If you are most comfortable with php, I'd simply use that.
Joshua.
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