Posted by Andy Jeffries on 12/09/05 15:56

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:38:37 -0800, juglesh wrote:
> When beginning PHP, this sounds great, and it does beat the hell out of
> manually updating stuff. But, you still wind up having to edit all your
> pages if you do a major change.
>
> Instead of including the header/footer/etc on each of your pages, try
> having the header/footer on your index.php, then include the content as
> needed. You will wind up having links that look like
> www.domain.com/index.php?page=home,
> www.domain.com/index.php?page=contact etc.

The downside to that is if "page=contact" needs to redirect on some
condition (you won't be able to send headers as the content will have
already started).

It's a nice idea and works fine for small sites, but the way you phrased
it seems like the "header/footer" way is for newbies and more experienced
coders use the "?page=blah" mechanism, whereas IMHO I'd say it's exactly
reversed.

Cheers,


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