Displaying Information Using ECHO

You can use the ECHO directive to display specific information on your web pages. This is very simple and extremely efficient. Many JavaScript scripts contain line after line of code to do what can be done in SSI in one trivial statement.

Which becomes:
ssi2.htm

All of the ECHO directives which may be displayed are shown in the table below.

**Server Environment Variables Which Can Be Displayed Via ECHO**
Directive	Description	Real Example
DATE_GMT	The current GMT (greenwich, UK) can be formatted using #config	Friday, 09-May-2025 19:48:04 GMT
DATE_LOCAL	current time/date, can be formatted using #config	Friday, 09-May-2025 15:48:04 EDT
DOCUMENT_NAME	document name that was requested	ssi2.htm
DOCUMENT_URI	URL of the document	/help/man/ssi2.htm
LAST_MODIFIED	document modified date, can be formatted using #config	Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 17:47:39 EST
HTTP_REFERER	URL of the document the client came from
REMOTE_ADDR	Numeric IP address of the client	3.149.249.124
REMOTE_HOST	domain name of the client (DNS option must be active on server)	3.149.249.124
REQUEST_METHOD	HTTP method: GET OR POST	GET
SERVER_NAME	server hostname	spunkyworld.com
SERVER_PORT	the port used by httpd (usually 80)	443
SERVER_PROTOCOL	Which version of Httpd compliance	HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE	The name of the server software	LiteSpeed

The way that the date and time are displayed can be precisely controlled using the "timefmt" feature of the "config" directive. All you need to do is include the "timefmt" within the directive, as shown below.

which displays as:

Friday 05/09/25

You can use any of the format codes from the table below in this manner.

**Date Format Codes**
Code	Description
%a	abbreviated weekday name
%A	full weekday name
%b	abbreviated month name
%B	full month name
%c	locale's appropriate date and time
%C	default date and time format
%d	day of month - 01 to 31
%D	date as %m/%d/%y
%e	day of month - 1 to 31
%h	abbreviated month name (alias for %b)
%H	hour - 00 to 23
%I	hour - 01 to 12
%j	day of year - 001 to 366
%m	month of year - 01 to 12
%M	minute - 00 to 59
%n	insert a newline character
%p	string containing AM or PM
%r	time as %I:%M:%S %p
%R	time as %H:%M
%S	second - 00 to 61
%t	insert a tab character
%T	time as %H:%M:%S
%U	week number of year - 00 to 53
%w	day of week - Sunday=0
%W	week number of year - 00 to 53
%x	Country-specific date format
%X	Country-specific time format
%y	2 digit year - YY
%Y	4 digit year - YYYY
%Z	timezone name

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