rebuilding page, includes help

@NogDogJul 30.2006 — #It's really pretty simple. (There's many things we could do to make it more complicated, but let's keep it simple for now.)

1. Create a directory called "includes" in your base web directory (public_html, www, or whatever it's called).

2. In that directory, create a file with the text you want for the header section; let's call it "header.inc". Then create a file for the footer text, called "footer.inc". (The suffix doesn't really matter, so I'm using ".inc" to make it obvious they're intended to be includes.)

3. At the point in your pages where you want the header text to appear, type:

[code=php]
 <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/header.inc"; ?>
 [/code]

Similarly, where you want the footer text:

[code=php]
 <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/footer.inc"; ?>
 [/code]

Note that for this to work, you'll probably have to either rename the pages that do these includes to have a ".php" suffix, or else edit/create a .htaccess file (assuming you're on an Apache webserver) to specify that .html files must also be sent to the PHP parser.

@sitehatcheryJul 30.2006 — #Also, if you're talking about a simple way to replace the code with include statements on all 50 pages, you could use something like Notepad++, Crimson Editor, or Dreamweaver and do a find and replace on these code blocks which are identical on each of the 50 pages. But, before you do this, make sure you back up your files.

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