Including another page

NMonk

What I'm wanting to do is have a page with all my links in (menu for my site), and use a command to include this in each of my pages. I think I've done this before in PHP (or rather a friend showed me). Can you tell me if this is possible please?

Cheers, the n00b of all n00bs!

racing_fire

First of all, make sure you don't have the <html><head><body> and all those tags like that. [EDIT] Don't have those on the menu page.

Now on your main page, right where you want the menu, put this:

include("/www/yoursite.com/html/includes/myMenu.php");

Make sure you change the path, too!

Have fun,
Kevin

frog

Funnily enough, I tried to do this with my site today but my css and javascript for the navigation bar stopped working. I called the file "navbar.inc" and it just had plain HTML in it. Does anyone know of a fix for this?

jengle52

if you plan on using databases and such, make sure you have in include page such as "dbconnect.php". with that said, make sure all of the pages you don't want people to see have .php extensions. if, for instance, you make a dbconnect page with your database connection/username/password, people can't see it.

NMonk

Originally posted by racing_fire
First of all, make sure you don't have the <html><head><body> and all those tags like that. [EDIT] Don't have those on the menu page.

How do you mean?

jengle52

in your include page, only have the main part of the code. you don't want <html><head><body> tags because then when you include it into your main page and view source, it will say that there are 2 sets of <html><head><body> tags, because in this case there would be those tags in the main page and the menu page.

main page example:

<html>

<body>

<?php include 'menu.php'; ?>

hello world!

menu page example:

bad menu example:

<html>

<body>

if you included the bad menu example, as you can see, there would be two sets of html/body tags, and this is what he was talking about. hope that's clear lol.

NMonk

sorted, thanks for al your replies.