What now?

ilike75i · Apr 14, 2006

Been doing PHP for about a week, but I cant really see how I'm going to incorperate it into my website you know? Like it all looks well but what the tutorials have taught me to do doesnt really seem of much use.

Like what benefits does a site in PHP have? And what potential does PHP have? LIke, for example, I want something so that when I add a link to my nav bar, it will add the same link to the rest of my pages so i dont have to do each page individually?

Just general direction is what i need

Shorty · Apr 14, 2006

What you're thinking of above is a template.

Have something like this in header.html:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>

<table>
<tr><td>Corner</td><td>Header</td></tr>
<tr><td>All your menu code here</td><td>

And in footer.html:

Code:

</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=2>&Copyright Your Name Here</td></tr>
</table>

</body></html>

And then for every page you have, use this PHP:

Code:

<?php

require_once ('header.html');

The content of the particular page goes here. 

require_once ('footer.html');

?>

Then whenever you change the menu code, or anything in either header.html and footer.html, it will be effective over all pages in your website. There are obviously more uses you can make of PHP. Think about what input you might need from your visitors, and what you need to do with it...

I hope that helped,
Shorty.

ilike75i · Apr 14, 2006

Thanks!

Thats what i was looking for, small problem though

Heres my inital page:

Code:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>

<?php

require_once ('ab.html');

?>

</body>
</html>

And heres the file titled ab.html:

Code:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>

<font color="red">Test</font>

</body>
</html>

But when I run that, i get a blank page?

Thanks

EDIT: Sorry for being such a noob

Jim_ · Apr 14, 2006

Remove
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>

and

</body>
</html>

from ab.html

ilike75i · Apr 14, 2006

Still I get nothing :S

yeppers · Apr 14, 2006

ilike75i said:
Still I get nothing :S

Do you get an error?

Try this instead:
include('ab.html');

Let us know

, best of luck!
Rhett.

Jim_ · Apr 14, 2006

Try just a plain require statement or an include statement, maybe?

ilike75i · Apr 14, 2006

I don't get an error, just a totally blank page.

the initial page is now:

Code:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>

<?php

include('ab.html');

?>

</body>
</html>

and ab.html is simply:

Code:

<font color="red">Test</font>

I read in a tutorial that ab.html should be called ab.php? I tried it but it still didnt work

Shorty · Apr 14, 2006

Did you save my code as a .PHP file?

Are you running PHP on the server you're testing it on?

ilike75i · Apr 14, 2006

Shorty, you just made me realise what I did wrong. I saved the inital file as .html instead of .php, it works now!

Thanks for your help guys! :D

Shorty · Apr 15, 2006

No problem, glad I could help.

What now?

ilike75i

Guest

Established Member

ilike75i

Guest

Established Member

ilike75i

Guest

VIP Member

Established Member

ilike75i

Guest

Established Member

ilike75i

Guest

Established Member

Similar threads

We're social

NakedWomen.xyz

agilityclasses.com

TofuBaby.com

durindana.ai

bbawellness.com

fuutn.com

GoldSTD.Com

RWAFoundation.com

IQVF.com

e-Birr.com

Pinned

Appreciation

Agreement

Answers

Relevance

Reaction

Status

Feeling