[CLUE-Tech] PHP or CSS question

[Kevin Cullis]

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:.
> >
> > The key issue that I'm wondering is: "in the HTML beginning", each and
> > every style was located throughout a "document" while CSS now locates
> > styles in one place, could PHP, without the use of CSS, just allow me to
> > design just one footer that has all of the normal HTML tags but use PHP
> > to "call" the one file throughout the web site. I'm trying to think
> > outside of a CSS/PHP box here: could a normal footer (such as company
> > name, address, and email address on each web page) be "cut and pasted"
> > into a PHP code that would have the simple HTML code displayed for each
> > page?
> 
> Yes, this is pretty trivial to do with PHP. All you need is something
> like
> 
> <?
> include("footer.html");
> ?>
> 
> in each file on your site that you want to have a footer.
> 
> And have all the footer stuff located in "footer.html"

Zonker, don't think of it as trivial, think of it as using KISS!  I once
had a friend tell me to use PERL script to remove the HTML tags from an
HTML table and the resulting text could be used elsewhere.  Well, first
off I don't know PERL, but I was able to use vim and the paste command
to do the same thing with a "cut and paste" to start the task. While I
appreciate his demonstration of PERL for larger projects, it was too
much work for my simple stuff.

I'll check out the PHP script and report back as to how it worked. Has
anyone tried the above idea in other ways?

Thanks for the info, Zonker.

Kevin