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bfsog · December 7 '08, 11:42 AM (#1)

I know there are a ways to include content across multiple pages (namely Server Side Includes) however is there any way to do this without actually editing every individual page?

Situation: A friend of mine has a sub directory on one of my domains, I want to have a certain HTML (slthough it could be any type of file) fileon any page that he uploads.

I guess this has to be done at a higher level than hand coding this into the pages.

Does anyone know what this practice is called/information on it?

Cheers

**filburt1** · December 8 '08, 09:24 PM (#2)

There is a terrible technique you can use with PHP:

Write a script that captures the output buffer (ob_start() with a callback to a custom function you write)
In that script, do a function str_replace() on the output buffer, replacing for example the </html> with your desired code.
Add the script as a PHP auto_prepend file through a .htaccess file:
Code:
```
php_value auto_prepend_file /path/to/your/script
```

I once had to add Google Analytics tracking to a site that somebody made several years ago in Dreamweaver templates. Considering I don't have Dreamweaver and it would have been very dangerous to upload every page again (a necessity when changing a template in Dreamweaver), I used this technique to automagically add the tracker code to every page.

There's no major performance hit; it's just a messy solution and only useful if you can't edit the original files as you mentioned.

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Including content on every page without modifying every page