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@NogDogFeb 07.2011 — #Search engines will be totally ignorant of how you assemble the output in your script. They see the same thing your browser sees: the resulting HTML received via a HTTP request. @NogDogFeb 07.2011 — #
To expand a bit on that, what I often do is create one include file that has separate function definitions for each such part of the page. Those functions can then take arguments for things that vary from page to page, such as the title, meta description, and meta keywords. Then I require() that single file and call each function as needed.
include.php:
sample page:
php include question – bad practice?
Hi everyone ? first post here. I’m hoping you guys could help me out:
I’m building a website and this is how I’ve done it:
Each page is located in a folder i.e /page1/ and in that folder is index.php (i’ve done this to hide the page file name which most websites seem to do these days)
Index.php assembles the webpage using a ton of includes:
include ‘../meta.php’;
include ‘../header.php’;
include ‘./content.php’;
include ‘../footer.php’;
meta is the title and metatags for the page
header is the menu and graphical flash interface
content is the content layout
footer is the footer
Is this bad practice? and will it affect the search engine optomization?
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@NogDogFeb 07.2011 — #I'm not following you on the purpose for the 'content' include, and frankly the meta include either. If those are unique files for each /page1/index.php file, what good is it doing to use an include to incorporate them in the file as opposed to just putting their contents directly in to the index.php file directly?
Dave[/QUOTE]
To expand a bit on that, what I often do is create one include file that has separate function definitions for each such part of the page. Those functions can then take arguments for things that vary from page to page, such as the title, meta description, and meta keywords. Then I require() that single file and call each function as needed.
include.php:
[code=php]
function page_head($title, $description='', $keywords='')
{
$html = "<html>
<head>
<title>%s</title>
<meta type='description' content='%s' />
<meta type='keywords' content='%s' />
</head>
<body>
";
return sprintf(
$html,
htmlentities($title, ENT_QUOTES),
htmlentities($description, ENT_QUOTES),
htmlentities($keywords, ENT_QUOTES)
);
}
function page_foot()
{
return "<p>Thus ends this page.</p>
</body>
</html>";
}
[/code]sample page:
[code=php]
<?php
include "../include.php";
echo page_head('This Title', 'This is a test.', 'This,Test,Keywords');
?>
<!-- stuff unique to this page -->
<?php echo page_foot(); ?>
[/code]