Greetings, everyone!
I'm new to web-development and have a lot of naive questions :) Right now I'm writing a simple site with very basic interface: the header, menu and content.
The content is the only thing that changes throughout the site. What I want to achieve is have all the HTML-code except content and head-tag in one place, so I don't have to edit each and every file when I need to update interface. So I want a single HTML-file for interface and a bunch of content-files.
So far I have only come up with writing a PHP-script that would read respective files and generate the output HTML-code. Of course, I would still have to make numerous of similar PHP-files but it doesn't really worry me because, unlike interface, I will no longer need to get back to it once it's done. But isn't it a serious compromise in terms of performance?..
I'm pretty sure there must be a standard solution but I can't seem to find an appropriate search request so I could google it.
Thanks in advance!
3  7044   kovik 1,044
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Standard? Eh. The "standard," at least among newer programmers (and WordPress), is to store the header in a file (header.php) and the footer in a file (footer.php) and include them around the content in other files.
Personally, I like to create a template and insert data into the template. A simple way is to make a file that has a few variables it needs (such as $title and $content) and then the site files would define these properties.
Like so:
template.php - <html>
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<head>
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<title><?php echo $title; ?> - Site Name</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<div id="header">
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<h1><?php echo $title; ?></h1>
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<ul id="nav">...</ul>
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</div>
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<div id="content">
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<?php echo $content; ?>
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</div>
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<div id="footer">
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Copyright © 2010 Site Name
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
index.php - <?php
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$title = 'Home';
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ob_start();
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?>
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Welcome!
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This is the content for the index.php file.
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We use output buffering (http://php.net/manual/en/ref.outcontrol.php)
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in order to store this data into a variable named "$content."
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<?php
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$content = ob_get_contents();
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ob_end_clean();
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include 'template.php';
Thanks, worked perfectly for me!
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