For a serverside include to take effect, the page content must be parsed by the web server, so that the include command is caught and the result of your CGI script be included.
Normally this means that the (X)HTML file would have the file extension .shtml.
In this case the page is generated by your php pages and the file type ( extension ) is .php, which means no parsing is made by the server, and the include doesn’t take effect.
Your request is rather special, as I found from a somewhat extensive googleing (?). Common sense seem to have it, that the PHP include statement is enough and replaces the SSI functionality.
AS seen from your problem, that’s not entirely true. I’m sure there is a simple solution, but it doesn’t strike me just now.
Good luck!
Here’s how to do SSI in a PHP script:
http://www.php.net/function.virtual
Note that if you *must* do this through a post’s content, you’ll also need one of the “exec php code in a post” plugins:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Posts_Formatting
You can use this statement in a page template:
<?php virtual ('/cgi-bin/bib/buyitbomb.cgi?keywords=belt&db=17971&mode=all&boundary=word&format=ssi&results=10&start=0&s=1'); ?>
No need for a plugin.
<?php virtual (‘/cgi-bin/bib/buyitbomb.cgi?keywords=belt&db=17971&mode=all&boundary=word&format=ssi&results=10&start=0&s=1’); ?>
not work, don’t work virtual in the template files…help me
anyone ? It’s possible virtual function is disable from the hosting ?
It’s possible virtual function is disable from the hosting ?
No, that’s not possible, however, why are you trying to use the function from somebody else’s question? What exactly are *you* trying to do?
I run wordpress on dreamhost
They say run php as CGI and virtual function is not avaible.
My request is the same of the person. Thanks Otto
I’m trying to do something similar, except that I want to include ssi in a sidebar template, not a post.
The regular ssi call statement is:
<!–#include virtual=”cgi-bin/upevent/upevent_full.cgi?Display_Event=Yes” –>
So, based on the reco above, I’ve modified it to:
<?php virtual (‘/cgi-bin/upevent/upevent_full.cgi?Display_Event=Yes’); ?>
Which gives me the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: virtual() in /home/techie/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/Topfade3Col-TW/sidebarR.php on line 7
Can anyone tell me how to fix the fatal error? I’d be grateful.
(Or an alternative way to include an upcoming events list that shows only upcoming events (ie, doesn’t include events that have passed)
Thanks!
Beth
techiecoach: I’ve since discovered that this function is only available when PHP is being run as an Apache module. So if your host is using PHP as a CGI program, virtual() won’t work.
I use Google Calendar for my events listing on my page, along with a Google Calendar widget I wrote: http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2006/04/18/google-calendar-widget/
