Quote:(sic )Once you have

Ron Wolpa — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:38:31 +0000

Quote:

(sic )Once you have mastered the technique you can revisit this tutorial and move on to the next section.

Very didatic the article. So that I expected the sequel on the next section as mentioned.
This method goes well with repetitive content pages. However most sites have a landing page with a different layout than the linked pages. That means I will have to create a 2nd 'includes' for the other pages.
On 2005 I took a too fast paced PHP maraton course ( 8 hours per day during 5 days ! ).
I remember the guy who was teaching showed us a way to modify sites with different layouts employing functions. I haven´t learned too much of course , it was too fast.
I have tried to find a tutorial on this matter.

Many thanks for your reply,

tonyrome — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:01:22 +0000

Many thanks for your reply, Megan. I have uploaded a quick example of the problem. Please go to http://www.anokhi.co.uk/test/header.htm and you will see the header and menu as it should appear. If you then go to http://www.anokhi.co.uk/test/index, you will be able to see the issue I mentioned.

This:
JeevesBond — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:36:00 +0000

This:

`<?php include(“header.htm”); ?>`

has proper speech marks, instead of the `"` characters (that are actually inch marks) everyone usually uses. So, yes, it was a problem with the original article. I've fixed it now and thank you very much for pointing this out, hopefully not too many people were hurt by that!

tonyrome wrote:Also, I

Megan — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:46:28 +0000

tonyrome wrote:

Also, I noticed that using

<?php
 include(“header.htm”); 
?>

doesn't work for me. I have to use 'header.htm' rather than "header.htm". Is this an error in the article or does it depend on the version of php being used?

I really don't know about this. The official documentation uses single quotes, but I've used double quotes before without a problem ...

Could you post a link to what you're working on? Then we can see what's gong on. If you haven't already, look for the developer tools that come with your browser. In Firefox you need the add-on Firebug, which can tell you exactly where margins and padding are being applied, and lets you change the values in the browser.

I followed the instructions

tonyrome — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:27:07 +0000

I followed the instructions in the article above but I have a problem with the final result, which I hope someone can troubleshoot.

I have an index.php file, referencing a header.htm. The header contains a logo, picture and drop-down menu. If the header.htm file is displayed alone, ie. www.mydomain.com/header.htm, it displays correctly. However, when displayed as part of the index.php file, ie. www.mydomain.com/index, the header.htm file drops approximately 21px, almost as though there's a top margin set. However, all the margins are set to 0.

This causes a problem because the background of the page has a line running through the top (horizontally) and the header contains a continuation of the line. The lines are therefore not correctly aligned.

Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it?

Also, I noticed that using

<?php
 include(“header.htm”); 
?>

doesn't work for me. I have to use 'header.htm' rather than "header.htm". Is this an error in the article or does it depend on the version of php being used?

hi can anyone help me with

shruti_gupta — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:57:23 +0000

hi
can anyone help me with this code?
i m unable to work this code online.

index.php is like this:

<?php
$page_title = “Indiadiets, diets, Blood type Diets, Specific Blood Groups.”;
?>

<?php
 include(“header.php”);
?>

-content

and header.php is like this :

<?php
 echo $page_title; 
?>

...............................

wow, just tried it. Okay just

sherlizz — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:35:05 +0000

wow, just tried it. Okay just did with one page, so the rest must be adjusted... Just Awesome. I'm just a hobbyist and PHP is over my head really. But just following the simple steps and BOOM it worked! Thanks so much for this neat tutorial. What a delight being able to make the changes in just one include page and have it work on the whole site. Magic!!!

Indeed; regardless of what

Quicksolver — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:51:56 +0000

Indeed; regardless of what you use to simplify the work, I think it's a lot simpler for the server (and the dev) to focus on the content rather than worry about what they need to include for the whole page to appear correctly. As long as the content doesn't interfere with the layout it's included in, I don't think it should be a big issue the site is entirely viewed from one 'index.php' file.

For smaller or pseudo-dynamic sites, it's better to use the individual .php file per purpose approach, with included headers and footers as outlined in the article.

I did this method for a

Greg K — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:21:39 +0000

I did this method for a local college once. The idea was to give the dean the ability to change the main content via Dreamweaver, but not have to worry about the main JS drop down nav, and all the dynamic news/events sections.

The "pages" he edited had a two column table in them, the left section nav, and the main content. The main template opened up the individual .html files he edited, parsed out the "Last updated Date" that dreamweaver automatically updated, and the two columns from the table to use in the main template.

It worked really well, allowing him to easily edit content on all pages and now have to worry about the rest of it.

(Note, some people asked why I didn't use Dreamweaver's built in template system that lets you edit a master template and have it update the individual pages. This does work pretty well for small sites, however with over 350 pages, was not practical.)

What about the opposite:

Quicksolver — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:01:45 +0000

What about the opposite: Coding the header, footer and navigation into one page, and having the content change according to the URL instead? That's also a good way of not having to rewrite everything for all pages.