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How do I change website content without touching every page? - Sean - 01-16-2013 09:25 AM
I have a header content I use on every page. This includes a banner, navigation and links to facebook, twitter and myspace. The script also includes the page styles. Is there a way to put all this into a single web document and put a code in place so it automatically inserts it into the page? I want to be able to freely make changes to some of that without editing every single page.
- Erraticspark576 - 01-16-2013 09:35 AM
Best way to do this it to use a programming language such as PHP.
http://www.php.net
I use this on my websites. It allows you to mix code and HTML.
Every page has to have a php extension and your web server has to support PHP scripting (most do).
You would have your header file saved and then use the
<?php include('filename.inc'); ?>
line to get your standard header and footer into any page.
Wil .
- Joe - 01-16-2013 09:44 AM
Try the PHP function include().
Your site should look like this:
File index.php
<html>
<body>
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="navigation"></div>
<div id="content">
<?php
$site = $_GET["site"];
include('homepage/'.$site.'.php');
?>
</div>
</body>
And your links should look like this:
<div id="navigation">
<a href="homepage/index.php?site=home"></a>
<a href="homepage/index.php?site=about"></a>
</div>
Now create the files:
homepage/home.php with your content in it.
The link will now tell the file index.php which site to load, and index.php will simply insert the content of the included file.