PHP Includes on Cart, Search, Customer Registration

[denverrusty]

The shopping cart, search, customer registration and customer account all use a ShopSite CGI module which doesn't allow me to embed a PHP include into the template so that I can use standard headers, nav and footers in ShopSite and the content management system we are using (Drupal). The includes work fine on product pages. Any ideas on how I can include something into these templates and not duplicate all of the HTML?

[Jim]

Have you tried the template tag [-- INCLUDE xx --] where xx is the name of the file containing the html you want placed at that point in the template? Note the the file must be in the templates/include directory for this to work.

[denverrusty]

I forgot to mention that the navigation is dynamically generated so the shopsite include will not work for this. I can use PHP to do it but not on the CGI pages. I guess I would need to call a PERL program that calls a page with PHP.

[denverrusty]

I wrote a PERL program that pulls up a PHP page that has the includes needed to dynamically generate the navigation. It works great.

Here is the PERL code for anyone else who needs to do this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;

my $agent = LWP::UserAgent->new(env_proxy => 1,keep_alive => 1, timeout => 30);
my $url = "http://yourdomain/shop/includes/dynamic_body.php";
my $header = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
my $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $url, $header);
my $response = $agent->request($request);

if ($response->is_success){
print $response->content;
} else {
print '<FAILED></body></html>';
}