To extend the capabilities of a web site most web servers can be customized to handle additional scripts and extensions that are executed on the fly on the server.

Common Gateway Interface, CGI
A CGI script or CGI application is typically installed on the Web server and can create a page on the fly.

CGIs are often written in Perl (on Unix-based servers), AppleScript (on Mac servers) or in C/C++.

Lasso
Lasso is a middleware package frequently used to publish Filemaker database content on the Web and Intranets. The database content is published by using Lasso markup tags and command in your Web pages.

Joe's Lasso Extensions for Pagespinner help you to work with Lasso commands in PageSpinner.

PHP
The PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a programming language that can be embedded in your HTML pages to create dynamic Web pages. The commands are usually parsed on the Web Server which returns plain HTML pages to the browser.

PHP has extensive support for SQL database access, FTP, POP, XML, IMAP, SNMP and other standard protocols.

CDML
CDML stands for Claris Dynamic Markup Language, which you can use to dynamically publish data from FileMaker Pro databases onto the web.

Peter's CDML Tags Menu Extensions help you to work with CDML in PageSpinner.

SSI - Server Side Includes
Many Web servers provides support for Server Side Includes (SSI). Files saved with a name ending with ".shtml" or ".ssi"will then processed on the server before they are sent to the browser.

Special SSI-commands inside HTML comments are used to insert information into the page just before the page is sent to the browser.

If your server supports SSI, you can use PageSpinner's Server Side Includes command in the Tags menu, to insert SSI commands in your pages.

Apache SSI documentation
SSI for The Rest of Us by Art Sacket

The PageSpinner SSI Menu Extension is included in PageSpinner by courtesy of Carl Bäckström.

PageSpinner supports previews of local Server Side Include files without uploading files to a SSI-capable Web server.

PageSpinner simulates both virtual include files
<!--#include virtual="filename.shtml" -->
and the echo system variable commands
<!--#echo var="variable_name" -->
in local previews of pages. The MS IIS variation of the include file syntax is also supported.

SSI pre-processing is automatically enabled for .ssi and .shtml pages, and can be manually enabled/disabled in the Preview button's pull-down menu.

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