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# THE 'embed' CONFIGURATION DIRECTIVE                                  #
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In your serendipity configuration, you can set an 'embed' option to true
or false.

This defines, whether you use your blog as a standalone webpage - or if
you have different content wrapped around your blog, like the menu of
your usual homepage.

By setting the 'embed' option to true, you have to make sure the
following things to get everything to work well:

1. 'indexFile' option.

   This configuration option needs to be set to the wrapper file you
   want to use. Let's say you normally have a 'content.php' file for
   your webpage. This 'content.php' file sets up your internal
   templates, your menu structure and such.
   Now you want this file to be used to include your weblog. A simple
   content.php could look like this:

   <?php
   $homepage = new Template_Class;
   $homepage->set_template($_REQUEST['page']);
   $homepage->output_header();
   $homepage->output_content();
   $homepage->output_footer();
   $homepage->track_statistics();
   ?>

   So normally your file would be called with 'content.php?page=about'
   to display your 'about' page of your personal homepage.

   Now we want this file to be displayed, having the 'page' variable
   being set to 'blog'.

   For this, we set up a 'wrapper.php' file:

   <?php
   $_REQUEST['page'] = 'blog';
   // Let serendipity generate our content:
   ob_start();
   require 'index.php';
   $blog_data = ob_get_contents();
   ob_end_clean();

   // Now we include our normal content building file.
   // This one has to make use of your $blog_data variable to print
   // the content where appropriate!
   require 'content.php';
   ?>

   You would then set your 'indexFile' serendipity-option to the
   'wrapper.php' file.

  2. Plugin panes & HTML-headers

   With the example above, we only get the main blog data printed. One
   of the most visible actions when using the 'embed' option is that the
   plugin panes are not generated. And HTML headers/foooters are also
   not provided by s9y in this case, as this should be done by your
   'content.php' file.

   So you have to include them in your 'content.php' file, to have them
   visible in your embedded setup.

   You can use this snippet:
   <?php
   serendipity_plugin_api::generate_plugins('left','div');
   serendipity_plugin_api::generate_plugins('right','div');
   ?>
   somewhere in your 'content.php' file.

The 'embed' option is therefore only recommended to be used by advanced
users going for a most flexible setup!