It can be used as a templating system that is run offline, once, to generate the output content. Since it does not require server-side technology to generate the output, the output could even be served from local disk (allowing you to offer downloadable zip/gz files of the HTML for offline browsing).

It supports including files and even conditional includes, as well as overlays. To inject header content with the overlays, you don’t need to specify an include tag but instead in the tagneticconfig file specify that if the Tagneto engine sees a BODY tag in the source, inject the header content after the BODY tag.

To make Tagneto’s web site, I just use Nvu (http://www.nvu.com) to author plain, vanilla HTML. Then I run that HTML through Tagneto and use overlays to inject the CSS and HTML that creates the style for the site. Right now the style for the site is not very interesting, but I can change it later in the overlays and easily re-style the site.

you can SSI any page, including .cgi

use envrionment variables to pass information into the SSI.

you can nest SSI

a major problem with using ssi for the header is you end up with every page having the same title.

a way around this is:

<!–#set var=”title” value=”whatever” ->
<!–#include virtual=”header.shtml” –>

and in header.shtml:

<title><!–#echo encoding=”none” var=”title” –></title>

I only wanted to put my idea across. Of course, if you don’t work with .php files (as I do) but .html, file_get_contents() is better than include(). But in any case, one should always check if $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'] is valid.

include $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'].’/index.html’;

A better one:

$handle = fopen ($_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'].’/index.html’, “r”);
while (!feof($handle)) {
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
echo $buffer;
}
fclose ($handle);

It is more secure to use fopen than to use include which could lead to a massive security hole.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*/$ /index.php

And PHP:

<!– header –>
<?php
include $_SERVER['REDIRECT_URL'].’/index.html’;
?>
<!– footer –>

This way, you don’t have to include your site header on every single page because the content gets included.