Recommended way of common page header and footer?

[old_newbie]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations now how best to implement common page headers (e.g. main navigation) and footers?

Currently I am storing them, as HTML in my MySQL database and displaying them like this (abridged):

<?php

include ('common_functions.php');

$lang_id = 1; # English

$page_details = get_page_details ($lang_id);

?>

html stuff ...

<?php echo $page_details['header']?>
.
.
.
.
<?php echo $page_details['footer']?>

.... if you get the idea.

Google isn't correctly crawling the site, so I was wondering if this was something to do with it.

Would you recommend another way?

Thanks,

Old noob

[TF_TheMoon]

That won't make any difference to how google spiders your page. As far as google is concerned it will read the final output. Look at the head tags you may be stopping spiders

[old_newbie]

Thanks TF - that was it, crappy head tags it was.