What are the possibilites to embed content from other pages on my own page

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What are the possibilites to embed content from other pages on my own page

Hello this is may first question and I have found so far the following alternatives:

ServerSideInclude
embedding complete pages via iframe
to parse xml and translate into html

It would be nice, if you have some more suggestions. Thanks for your patience.

Best regards Matthias Günther

You could also use some kind of JavaScript library (e.g. JQuery) and pull the data into your page via AJAX

Jeriko 2010-04-15 12:55:46

oh no not this one

Col. Shrapnel 2010-04-15 12:59:55

This solution will be subject to the SOP.

Colin Fine 2010-04-15 13:02:11

@Colinwhat do you mean with SOP?

Matthias Guenther 2010-04-15 13:51:40

Same Origin Policy ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy]Might or might not be an issue for you.

Colin Fine 2010-04-16 15:50:44

Looks like that the only answer is 1. PHP or any other sever side language can be used too.
As 2. is not an option at all and 3. does not include any pages.

Can you explain what pages you want to include? The answer may depend on it

Col. Shrapnel 2010-04-15 12:57:40

Hello Col,I want to integrate some image galeries (for example visit the page http://www.pictrs.com/lichtspuren). So I have to specify the content/area of the page I want. Maybe another solution is to communicate with the api to get according responses.

Matthias Guenther 2010-04-15 13:14:36

Hello @Matt . In the server-side programming there is no page including at all. Every page being generated from some data based on some logic. Just generate any page as you wish. What api you're talking about?

Col. Shrapnel 2010-04-15 13:31:13

@ColI had the twitter api in mind which I also used with cURL to get information via json. This was pretty cool, but I have no experience in writting an api.

Matthias Guenther 2010-04-15 13:38:02

@Matt twitter API is cross-site api, while your goal is single site, I assume. Just male 2 scripts, one showing single picture and another showing whole gallery, reading puctureas from disk. that's all

Col. Shrapnel 2010-04-15 13:45:51

@Coland what script do you suggest for this task?

Matthias Guenther 2010-04-15 13:58:58

@Matt if you're talking of ready made scripts I'd suggest Menalto gallery. Thought you asked how to program

Col. Shrapnel 2010-04-15 14:00:42

I actually meant to programm :) - sorry for my inaccuracy. I don't want to use some prebuild galleries. I have experience with ruby and bash - so these things must be enough.

Matthias Guenther 2010-04-15 14:11:59

+1 A:

<object>

I did not know you could use the object tag to embed text/html documents. I was researching this and came upon this W3C paper. I doubt this should be your first choice, but the question asked for the possibilities, not recommendations.

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331

IFRAME vs OBJECT
Although a means for creating compound documents is recognized to be a real need the introduction of IFRAME to meet this need is arguable. The main reason is that compound documents can already be created using the existing OBJECT element. Indeed, the purpose of IFRAME is to provide authors with a way to insert HTML documents into an HTML document. At the same time the OBJECT element is designed to provide a general mechanism to insert any type of object into an HTML document. Based on this and given that an HTML document is only a particular type of object, it is reasonable to claim that IFRAME is not necessary, and that OBJECT should be used instead.

Christopher Altman 2010-04-15 13:03:29

While this is all currently true, you should note that in HTML5, IFRAME will obtain capabilities beyond those of OBJECT. Possibly most useful will be the "seamless" attribute. (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/text-level-semantics.html#attr-iframe-seamless)

Alohci 2010-04-15 15:03:20

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