using same header to many pages

Anon

Dear All,
Im new to PHP and hoping there will be a simple solution to what I need to do. I have many pages on my website which need the same navigation bar at the top of each page. I currently have a large chunk of code that provides the navigation in each html file. What i want to do is have this site menu code seperate from each html file and include it when each html file is loaded. Therefore, when any changes to the navigation section are made, I wont have to make changes to every html file. Hence, I need a seperate header which is included in each file as required.

Can someone please advise me on the best way to achieve this!
Thankyou in advance
Regards,
- Pete

angulion

put the menu in a file (example: mynavi.php) and
then in your html files (with .php extension) you use
<?
include("mynavi.php");
?>

knickerlas

<?
// header.inc

function page_header() {
 $header=<<<EOF
 
 <head><title>Hi there</title></head>
 <body>
 
 Here is the nav bar!

 EOF; // neat string trick for this type of stuff
 return $header;
}

<?
// HTML page
print(page_header());
?>

Hope that helps

Nick