Posted by Christopher Pomasl on 08/30/05 01:09

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:01:01 -0700, J Smith wrote:

> I'm making a website where each page has the same design, obviously its
> a bad idea to put the same code/html in each page so what is the best
> way to do this?
>
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I do the following:
I have Menu.php and Trailer.php in the "components" directory.
Each page then does:
include (components/Menu.php)
content
include (components/Trailer.php)

Menu.php includes the standard header and a menu bar but also includes a
sidebar which (someday) will contain content from our calendar. From here
you can also add whatever code that needs to be executed for every page.
I use this for login and session handling, personalizing the header for
the logged in user, etc.

Since we have the sidebar, the Menu.php ends with a table. The first
column in the table is the sidebar and the <TD> for the second column (the
content) is written.

The content then displays from the page issuing the include(Menu).

The Trailer.php script then closes the </TD> and writes out the footer for
the page.

This keeps the standard stuff in singular places and the content whereever
it needs to be.

Chris

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