Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Second Edition

Using SSI Directives

Let’s look at a simple example of embedding SSI directives in a page. The syntax for SSI directives is very similar to HTML comments. There’s a good reason for this. If for some reason you used SSI directives in a document that the Web server thought was a normal HTML file, the Web browser would interpret the directives as comments instead of displaying them as part of the page. The basic format for SSI directives is

<!--#command parameter="argument"--> 

With SSI directives, punctuation counts. Be sure to use all the punctuation exactly as it appears in the preceding example. Specifically, it is important not to put a space ...