CSS Layouts in php content page

ChockRock

Greetigns,

I recently started creating content for a website that uses php. I can not get the css to display how i want in the content areas.

the names of the files are set up like the example below.

pagename.php and pagename_content.php

I edit the pagename_content.php file and it is loaded into the main page. This I understand, as the whole page includes a top nav and left nav sections as will as a footer and then the actual content. I understand how that works, not that I can do it, but at least I understand.

My question is, how can I get the content to layout how I want using css i.e. floating divs and images and adding styles to links.

Is there a way to add a css file that only applies to the _content.php file?

I tried attachign a style sheet inside the file, but I am sure I am doing somethign worng.

thanks for the help 🙂

NogDog

Any stylesheet links and/or <style> blocks must be within the <head>...</head> section of the HTML that you output.

If you want to use an include file that generates that portion of the HTML, but you want parts of it to vary, then you'll need to code things so that the included file does some dynamic processing. Here's just one possible way of many you might do it:

pagename.php:

<?php
// include file for top of HTML output
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>
<?php
if(empty($title))
{
   $title = 'Untitled';
}
?>
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
<?php
if(empty($cssFile))
{
   $cssFile = "/default.css";
}
?>
<link rel='<?php echo $cssFile; ?>' href='style.css' type='text/css'>
</head>
<body>
<!-- other static stuff follows here, such as navigation menus -->

pagename_content.php:

<?php
$title = "This Page's Title";  // use this for the <title> element
$cssFile = '/custom_style.css';  // use this stylesheet instead of the default
// output document head and navigation:
require "pagename.php";
?>
<!-- page-specific content starts here -->
<h2>Content for this page</h2>
<p>Blah, blah, blah.....</p>
</body>
</html>

ChockRock

Thank you for the help.
i will try that and see if it works! 😃