Posted by Rik on 08/15/06 15:04

laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I'm using PHP 4.3. I have 15 pages in which I need to take the
> content of the BODY and put it in a little table ...
>
> <table>
> <tr><td colspan="3"><img src="header.gif"></td></tr>
> <tr>
> <td><img src="left_img.gif"></td>
> <td><!-- body content goes here --></td>
> <td><img src="right_img.gif"></td>
> </tr>
> <tr><td colspan="3"><img src="bottom.gif"></td></tr>
> </table>
>
> It is a pain to have to cut and paste all this HTML code (the above is
> just an abbreviated version) into all 15 pages. And plus, if the
> shell changes, I'll have to change it in 15 pages. Any advice on an
> efficient way to add this to everything?


well, first of all I really urge you to forget tables for layout and to use
css. Tables are for tabular data only.

with that out of the way:

---head.html----------
<table>
<tr><td colspan="3"><img src="header.gif"></td></tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="left_img.gif"></td>
<td>
----------------------
---foot.html----------
</td>
<td><img src="right_img.gif"></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="3"><img src="bottom.gif"></td></tr>
</table>
----------------------
--page.php------------
include('head.html');
/* generate content */
include('foot.html');
----------------------

Alternatively, you could get ALL your static HTML in these two files, andf
all pages which need it are in the same dir: echo only the content in the
*.php pages, and create an .htaccess:

--.htaccess------------
php_flag auto_prepend_file head.html
php_flag auto_append_file foot.html
-----------------------
---page.php------------
echo $content;
-----------------------

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

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