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variable you need to replace the type of data you want to display with the variable's name. The example below shows how to implement the inbuilt #SSI_DATELONG variable to display the current date every time a page is requested.

We start with a very basic HTML page:

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<HTML>
    <BODY>
        <H2>Welcome to my page.  The date is 1 January 2012.</H2>
	    </BODY>
</HTML>
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<p>This is clearly inappropriate because if a user requests your page on, say, 14 February 2013, the date will be incorrect.</p>

<p>So to force the web server to show the correct date, simply substitute the text for the variable name, in this case #SSI_DATELONG....</p>

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For the data to change dynamically, substitute the data with SSI variable name, in our case #SSI_DATELONG.

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<HTML>
    <BODY>
        <H2>Welcome to my page.  The date is #SSI_DATELONG.</H2>
	    </BODY>
</HTML>
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<p>If this page is now requested, it will look something like this...</p>

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<p>The result is that the variable #SSI_DATELONG was replaced by the
text '21 September 2012'.</p>
	

When the page is requested, it will display as below:

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