specific include

redeyes

Thanks for reading.

I have read a lot of posts about the include statement and understand the majority but there is one small thing missing for me. Maybe you could help enlighten me.

I read that I can include htm files or php files. Therefore I have two senarios.

If I include using a htm within a htm page, how much do I need to write in that htm file that will be included.

For example, If I was to include a logo image, could I just save the file with only the <img src="images/logo.jpg" width="197" height="49"> only?
or would I need to write from
<html>
<meta htt....
<title.....

</html>

That gets me also thinking about if that page can be searched by spiders,..? Could that little include image then be found through a google search?

If I was to save the file, lets say the logo again, as a php, do I need to include the the html tags within the external php file? for example
logo.php

<?php
echo "<table width="522" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<img src="images/logo.jpg" width="197" height="49">;
...
...
echo "</table>";
?>

or would I just echo the image only and leave the table tags etc in the main html file?
I have been playing around with different combinations but I wonder which is really the best way. Mabye that is just up to me?

Thanks for any feedback and suggestions.
I appreciate it.

leatherback

Hi,

THe include does nothing more or less then take the code in the included file, and place it at the location where you include it. AFTER that, the full script is evaluated, and output is generated (If that is what the script does).

So: You can decide yourself what you want to include. And yes. If it produces output, the output weill be found by spiders. But NOT as individual file. As part of the main file, in which it was included.

It is wise to do your includes in a consistent manner. So if it generates a menu, decide whether it will or will not include the comment tags / <div> delimeters. Otherwise you wil get trouble re-using the code.

redeyes

leatherback wrote:
THe include does nothing more or less then take the code in the included file, and place it at the location where you include it. AFTER that, the full script is evaluated, and output is generated (If that is what the script does).

That is the bit I didn't quite grasp. In saying that, I get it now.

Cheers.