Server Side Includes (SSI)

The web server supports server side includes. Specially formatted text will be replaced with dynamic data.

This feature is used in most of the example pages that come with AbelCam.
The included files have a .inc extension.
If you want to take advantage of these feature, have a look at the example files.

Enable SSI

By default SSI is enabled for all html documents.
If you want to save a few CPU cycles and parse html files with includes only, edit config.xml and
change AutoSSI = True to AutoSSI = False

If AutoSSI is disabled, only files with an extension of .shtml will be parsed for server side includes.

include files

include a file from the local directory

this will replace the above line with the contents of the file myfile.txt
include a file from the webserver root

this will replace the above line with the contents of the file myrootfile.txt

include web pages

you can include any webpage in yours:

this will replace the above line with the contents of the web page http://www.seiz.ch/ad.html

include commands

you can include commands in your web pages:

this will replace the above line with the directory listing

include vserver link

the build in Windows Media Server runs on a port unknown to the web page.
To include a link to the multimedia content, use the vserver include:

this will replace the above line with the windows media server url (eg mms://localhost:8090)

include frame rates

this will be replaced with the frame rate set for the cam device
this will be replaced with the replay frame rate

include output size

this will be replaced with the width of the selected cameras picture
this will be replaced with the height of the selected cameras picture

use this when you are switching camera output size some times and you don't want to change the web pages.

include capture folder

this will be replaced with the local save path for the selected camera

include tuner

this will be replaced with the tuner channel control if a tv tuner is the active video device

include videoinputs

this will be replaced with the video input control if a device with multiple video inputs is the active video device

include pdacams

this will be replaced with links for all active cams to cam.html?cam=camnr

include random number

this will be replaced with a random number, used for unique URLs to prevent browser side caching

include current time

this will be replaced with the current time

include server name

this will be replaced with whatever you entered for your server name in the web configuration

include camera name

this will be replaced with whatever you entered for the camera name

include camera number

this will be replaced with the current camera number

include client statistics

this will be replaced with a table containing the client statistics

include country statistics

this will be replaced with a table containing the country access statistics if Show request country is enabled

no caching directive

this will add cache defeating headers for this (html) file to prevent browser caching

include plugin links

this will be replaced with the default links for all active plugins

include configuration

this will be replaced with xml data containing information about all active cameras

includes for javascripting

creates a javascript array with the active cams
creates a javascript array with the names of the active cams

example taken from header.inc:

<script type="text/javascript"><!-- 
camArray = new Array();
<!--#camarray -->
camNameArray = new Array();
<!--#camnamearray -->

//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/include/functions.js?cam=<!--#currentcam -->"></script>

creates a javascript array with the configured video input channels
this is used in the file wwwroot\include\videoinputs.inc to create the URLs to select the video inputs
see also Device with multiple video inputs

conditional includes

For various features of AbelCam you can define conditional includes. Those will be included or excluded depending on which features of AbelCam are active.

Tilt/Pan Device

this will be shown if a tilt / pan device is active

this will be shown if no tilt / pan device not active

Show Pan / Tilt / Zoom Values

Pan: 
Tilt: 
Zoom:

Zoom

this will be shown if Zoom Min is not equal Zoom Max

this will be shown if Zoom Min is equal Zoom Max

Chat

this will be shown if chat is enabled

this will be shown if chat is disabled

Video Server

this will be shown if the Video Server is active

this will be shown if the Video Server is not active

Tuner

this will be shown if the video device is a TV tuner

this will be shown if the video device is no TV tuner

Multiple Inputs

this will be shown if the video device has multiple video inputs

this will be shown if the video device does not have multiple video inputs

Motion detection / Local Save replay

this will be shown if local save is active and replay count is > zero

this will be shown if local save is not active or replay count is <= zero

Client Statistics

this will be shown if client statistics are active

this will be shown if client statistics are not active

this will be shown if Show request country is enabled

this will be shown if Show request country is not enabled

Camera Description

shows the cameras descriptive text (html version). You may use this to include URLs to other pages, images, anything.

Current Time

shows the current time

Plugins

shows a link to all active Web Plugins

to see all these examples in use, check out the html files delivered with AbelCam