[CLUE-Tech] PHP or CSS question

Sat Nov 17 21:37:05 MST 2001

Kevin, here is a quick explination of the code Joe sent you:

<?
 include('footer.css'); 
 include('footer.php');
 include('footer.html');
?>

Alright, the <? just sets off the php. Meaning, if you want to start
using php code, it all has to be in between <? and ?>.  You can put as
much, or as little code inside that. I included the other include lines
to show you that it doesn't matter what file you include, they can all
be included. A practical application using this code would be:

<html>
<head>
  <title>Test Page</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="ffffff">

<p>Hell, this is a test.</p>

<?
 include('footer.html');
?>

</body>
</html>

The "include" statement simply tells the page to include whatever
template you're feeding it.  Usually, you put a ; after each line of
code in php.  It helps the php processor know when the end of a line is.
Then, the ?> just tells the php processor to stop reading php code, and
just spit out the rest of the HTML.  Does this help? 

Kevin Cullis wrote:
> 
> 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
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