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adam
adam

Reputation: 23

PHP Include Footer Links From External Document

I am currently building a few one-page websites that use the same footer links. As I would like to be able to update them all at the same time, I was wondering if PHP could be used to achieve this. I was thinking that I could write the links in HTML in an external document and use the include function to grab the html and output it in each of the footers. I am new to php, so I am sorry if this is a very basic question. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 779

Answers (3)

Kuangfeng
Kuangfeng

Reputation: 71

In fact, the templates of many PHP applications like wordpress, works as you assume. They use include/require command.

In the web root directory, files may organised like this:

Web Root
├── css
├── footer.php
├── header.php
├── images
├── index.php
├── js
└── list.php

In index.php and list.php, use include "header.php" and include "footer.php" to add header and footer codes. So, now if you change something in footer.php, when you visiting index.php and list.php, you can see the changes.

PS: When should I use require_once vs include?

Upvotes: 0

Shashi
Shashi

Reputation: 474

The best way is to create a folder named includes which is normal convention in php projects then create a page called footer.php and then include that file in your main file, for example you have file on root folder called index.php and you would like to include footer.php there you just write <?php include("foldername/filename.php");?> that in this case will be <?php include("includes/footer.php"); ?> . As you are new, for further reading you may have a look here.

Upvotes: 0

George Sharvadze
George Sharvadze

Reputation: 570

If you're building separate websites and intend to use the same footer for all of them, you could create a sample footer html file and use PHP file_get_contents to display it on every website

Upvotes: 1

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