Footer/header in every page

Anon

Hi,

I want to add footer and header to each page on my site, and for that I decided to move to php (from perl cgi).

for this I need to know two things:

1) What should I add to each HTML file, in order to include the header/footer files ?

2) I want the header/footer files to be directory sensitive, i.e. they should have items specific for all files in foo/ (but still one header and one footer file for all directories). How can I do such header/foote r files?

Thanks (in advance)

cordex

If you are using PHP, then in the PHP file (note: not just a raw HTML file - unless you've got your server set up to parse HTML as PHP ... and that's a whole separate thread) just add:

<?php
$headerspecific_st = "a tag to tell the included PHP data what file-specific data to display in the header";
include ("C:\wwwroot\lib\header.php"); // abosolute positioning is handled differently on different servers
?>

Your regular HTML page here (obviously, without any header or footer information.

<?php
$footerspecific_st = "a similar tag to tell the included PHP footer what, if any, file-specific data to display in the footer";
include ("c:\wwwroot\lib\footer.php");
?>

Anon

Hi Ben,

<?php
include ("C:\wwwroot\lib\header.php"); // abosolute positioning is handled differently on different servers
?>

the problem I am having right now is that the path is different on my local PC and on live - which is quite enervating.
Is there way to check this and have php put automatically the correct path depending on whether I am online or working locally?

thanks
Martina

cordex

You could try:

$incl_st = $SERVER_NAME . \"/lib/header.php\";
include ($incl_st);

but that might give it fits because it may attempt to read the page via HTTP 1.1 protocol rather then including the PHP ... however, that in and of itself would work for a generic header that had no need for PHP coding. Try it and let me know.

Tag,
-Ben