Designing an html page in pieces [Was: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT: splitting large html files?]

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:15, fredjame wrote:
> Slightly different angle on the perhaps the same issue...
> 
> Every year I create an html document that is my calendar for the year. 
> It is basically a collections of tables, which allows "empty" cells that 
> I can fill up in future edits, as the year progresses.  So the whole 
> thing is a kind of living document throughout the year, and then it is a 
> record of historic data.
> 
> There is a limitation of working in html only - sorry, no dynamic stuff 
> allowed.

... but if you use php... you can still do your html stuff ( and even
call your files .html. when you want to use dynamic stuff you just 
add 
<?
print "your dynamic stuff goes here<BR>";
?>
and you've got a dynamic .html page. 

php works pretty seamlessly with plain old html code. 

jack




> 
> I know I could build each month say, as a separate page, each linking to 
> the next and previous, but I do like to be able to just scroll up and 
> down.  Is there a way to accomplish a scrolling effect without it having 
> to be all one file?