Problem with including files

Using <? include 'header/footer.php'; ?> instead of Template function in Dreamweaver.

Hi everyone,

I am new to PHP so please excuse me if my question seems too stupid to u. I used to be using Dreamweaver's template function to all my websites, but I found that sometimes Template can be very hard to contral, and sometimes it has unexpected activities.

So i decided to include a header.php and a footer.php file to achieve the same result, which is to have a consistant layout throughout the site and it is share to all files.

Everything works well, I had upload the site....BUT when i view the source code, i fugure i had 3 sets of <head> and <body> tag. One for the hearder.php, one for footer.php and one for content.php....is it suppose to be like that? please advise? it still works, but i was just wondering will it slow down the loading time or if someone can provide me a solutions, that would be great !!!

thanks

yvonne

Comments

HTML tags

February 27, 2004 by Kutt Niinepuu

As you are a "newbie" to PHP, as you said yourself, then you probably missed that the include files are kind of "pasted in" to the pointed locations, so that every character from the include file gets inserted. Knowing this, you could check your include files to see, if they contain those obsolete and tags. If they do, just strip them. The should probably be in the first include (if it is not declared already in the main documents) and the last in the footer include (again, when appropriate).

HTML Tags

June 10, 2004 by B M

Here it is nice and simple:

In your header.php and footer.php scripts, do not use the html, head, or body tags. Then in your page that you will include the scripts, place them between the body tags where you want the header and footer to show up.

It's that simple.

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