Server-side Include

A Server-side include is a means by which portions of a web page or web file is concatenated from another file using a Scripting Language such as PHP, ASP, or Java.

Oftentimes, this is available directly in the web server itself, via an extension.

Example using PHP

<?php
include 'header.php';
?>

Example in Active Server Pages

<!-- #include file="header.asp" --> 

Example using JSP

<!-- #include file="header.jsp" --> 

Related

• Header and Footer

For more info

• Apache mod_include Documentation
• Server Side Includes on Wikipedia