woohooo got PHP SSI to work.
 

woohoo just got my custom PHP SSI working. Maybe this sort of script already exists but I couldn't find anything? I made a custom BB code where I can specify a file in a certain directory of my server. Then I made a plugin that replaces my custom bbCode with the contents of the filename specified in the bbCode by modifying $output at the global_complete hook. I just used tidbits of info from searching on here and poof it worked I almost couldn't believe it sorry so excited hehe! This is my first 'php code' other than hello world and phpinfo lol.

I had to do this because I couldn't for the world of me figure out how to get Windows IIS to process server side includes SSI after processing the PHP file.

I plan to use this for my affiliate programs, i.e. place affililate code for a particular product into a file, then refer to it with my custom bbcode. Then if my affiliate falls through, etc, I just update that one file and anywhere I included it automatically updates...at least that's what I hope. hm..might depend on my thread cache settings though...

Thanks for all the good info on here!