IBM AS/400E Format for server-side includes, Directives for server-side includes, Result Example

Format for server-side includes

The current date, the size of a file, and the last change of a file are examples of the kind of information that can be sent to the client. There are commands that need to be included in the HTML document comments. The commands have the following format:

<!--#directive	tag=value ...	-->
<!--#directive	tag="value" ...	-->

The quotes around value are optional. However, quotes are required for imbedding spaces.

Directives for server-side includes

Use the config directive to control certain aspects of file processing. Valid tags include cmntmsg, errmsg, sizefmt, and timefmt.

cmntmsg — specifies the message appended to the beginning of text: Use this tag to specify the message that gets appended to the beginning of any text that follows a directive specification and comes before ″—>″.

Example:

<!--#config cmntmsg="[This a comment]"--> <!--#echo var=" " extra text -->

Result: (Output from the echo) <!—This is comment extra text –>.

Default: [the following was extra in the directive].

errmsg — specify the message sent to the client: Use this tag to specify the message that is sent to the client if an error occurs when a file is being processed. The message is logged in the server’s error log.

Example:

<!--#config errmsg="[An error occurred]" -->

Default: ″[an error occurred while processing this directive]″.

sizefmt — specify file size format: Use this tag to specify the format used when displaying the file size. In the following examples, bytes is the value used for a formatted number of bytes. abbrev displays the number of kilobytes or megabytes.

Example 1:

<!--#config sizefmt = bytes --> <!--#fsize file=foo.html -->

Result: 1024

Example 2:

<!--#config sizefmt=abbrev --> <!--#fsize file=foo.html -->

Result: 1K

Default: ″abbrev″

132Web Programming Guide V4R5