Building a PHP webpage...

B-truE

I'm looking for a good way in which to build PHP web pages.

I will have a header.inc and a footer.inc that is required by the index.php page... Now, the page will have extensive HTML tables, graphics and such, and I do not want to have to code all that in some text editor.

So, what is a good practice to build PHP pages? Do I design/code all the HTML in FrontPage (or whatever is suggested) then cut and past the HTML code from FrontPage into the PHP files (with the PHP code)?

I'm looking for a practical and very effificient methodolgy. I'm eager to learn how others are accomplishing this. What software do you use to build PHP pages from scratch (with extesive HTML in them)?

Thanks.

B-truE

kevinsequeira

well i use html-kit available at www.chami.com as the editor to write php code
i sit with the html designers and agree upon a general format while coding. like having a header.inc, footer.inc , leftnavbar.inc and rightnavbar.inc.
so the page will be divided into 5 sections - the header, the footer, the left navigation bar, right navigation bar and the body in the middle.
all these are put in the follo format
in the final page
<body>
<table>

<tr>
<td colspan="3">
<?php include("header.inc")?>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>

<td><?php include("leftnavebar.inc")?></td>

<td>

</td>

<td><?php include("rightnavbar.inc")?></td>

</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="3">
<?php include("footer.inc")?>
</td>
</tr>

</table>
</body>
this way any changes to html has to be done only once in all the include files and for individual pages you can ask the html designer to code within a table tag for the whole body part

hope this helps
reg
kevin

FrozNic

lol, k, your not a programmer unless you program 🙂 if you know html, you know that you can throw a page out in minutes if you know what you're typing! for those of us who have to do the same thing virtually everyday html wise. build templates! inc files that include footers, headers, nav bars, etc. i use dreamweaver mx for most of my stuff, very efficient and hasen't seemed to cause me any problems with anything (cept it uses way too much phys mem) i know that word and excels output of html is full of garbage, i'm not sure if frontpage is. i'd say use homesite or dreamweaver for what you're talking about. good luck

Frederick

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B-truE

Originally posted by kevinsequeira
1. well i use html-kit available at www.chami.com as the editor to write php code
2. i sit with the html designers and agree upon a general format while coding. like having a header.inc, footer.inc , leftnavbar.inc and rightnavbar.inc.
3. so the page will be divided into 5 sections - the header, the footer, the left navigation bar, right navigation bar and the body in the middle.
4. all these are put in the follo format
in the final page

kevinsequeira,

I'd really like to get a look at some examples of your includes (header, footer, right side, left side).

How are the widths and such configured?

I am very interested in learning this. Your post was very helpful...

Thanks.

B-truE