problems with include files

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Using <? include 'header/footer.php'; ?> instead of Template function in Dreamweaver.

I am new to PHP so please excuse me if my question seems too stupid to u. :p I used to be using Dreamweaver's template function to all my websites, but I found that sometimes Template can be very hard to contral, and sometimes it has unexpected activities.

So i decided to include a header.php and a footer.php file to achieve the same result, which is to have a consistant layout throughout the site and it is share to all files.

Everything works well, I had upload the site....BUT when i view the source code, i fugure i had 3 sets of <head> and <body> tag. One for the hearder.php, one for footer.php and one for content.php....is it suppose to be like that? please advise? it still works, but i was just wondering will it slow down the loading time or if someone can provide me a solutions, that would be great !!! 😃

many thanks

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dalecosp

So rewrite the files. I imagine that some browser somewhere could freak out over seeing 3 sets of tags, and it certainly would fail any validator you tried to run the site through.

I'd use "header.php" to open the tags, and "footer.php" to close them. You don't need any tags of this type in anything in between, so delete them. The composite output is what matters to the browser.

knashash

If you included <head> and <body> tags in your header, footer and file that included both of these, then you will have three sets. Make sure that the head tags are just in the header include file, body tag in the file that includes it and the end closing tags in the footer.