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Michelle

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Tutorial: PHP include

« on: July 26, 2004, 10:53:04 AM »

Heya^^ Okay I made this tutorial on another forum a while back, but since I hardly go to it anymore, I decided "oh what the hell" and decided to post it here too, for anyone who wanted to learn ^^

First off, you cannot be on a free server such as Geocities, Freewebs, Angelfire, Tripod etc. You have to be hosted somewhere where PHP is installed and allowed.

Once you know that your site is able to support PHP then its time for you to learn your basic PHP codes:

<? include('top.php'); ?> and <? include('bottom.php'); ?>

Its quite easy to understand, you place this code <? include('top.php'); ?> at the very top and place this code <? include('bottom.php'); ?> at the very bottom ^^

Now, you must have your links of the layout at the top of the HTML code. Its basically taking the uppper whole part of the layout. I'll explain, here is the HTML code for a layout that I have made and I'll divide the parts for you:


<html>
<head>
<title>Linear Disillusion</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

<META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no">
<table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td width="600">
<img src="images/image.gif"></td>
</tr>
</table>

<div style="position:absolute; width:174; left:81; top:350; border:0px none;">

Information
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
Information
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
Information
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
Information
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
Information
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
+ <a href="http://">Link Here</a> 
Credits
<center>Site ? Your Name. Layout ? 2003 <a target="_blank" href="http://sw.my-fault.net">Silver Winds</a>. All Rights Reserved.
</center>

</div>
<div style="position:absolute; width:355; left:262; top:320; border:0px none">




About This Layout

This layout features Magna Carta. Its a DIV Layers layout, which means its very basic and easy to edit. If you need intructions on how to install this layout, please contact me at: minagi@my-fault.net.

Layout Credits/Copyrights

This layout and all else is © Minagi of <a href="http://sw.my-fault.net">Silver Winds</a>. The image is from <a href="http://boyis.com">Boyis.com</a>!
There is a link located at the bottom of this layout, please do NOT remove it.




</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>


Thats it, all you do is cut it up, take the top.php html and put it ony a seperate page then name it top.php, do the same with the index.php put it on a different page then name it index.php it is where all of your content will go. The bottom.php is put on a different page also its usually where you put your credits but for this layout the credits are in the navigation, don't forget to name the page bottom.php.

Now on your index.php page you should have this (im still using the layout above)

<? include('top.php'); ?>


About This Layout

This layout features Magna Carta. Its a DIV Layers layout, which means its very basic and easy to edit. If you need intructions on how to install this layout, please contact me at: minagi@my-fault.net.

Layout Credits/Copyrights

This layout and all else is © Minagi of <a href="http://sw.my-fault.net">Silver Winds</a>. The image is from <a href="http://boyis.com">Boyis.com</a>!
There is a link located at the bottom of this layout, please do NOT remove it.


<? include('bottom.php'); ?>

I hope that helped, if you still have questions or your confused just email or PM me. Or simply just reply, and I'll hopefully be able to answer your question.


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Frozen

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Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2004, 04:21:56 AM »

oi oi! I'll have to read this! But I cant right now ^^;


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Melfina

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Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2004, 12:44:21 PM »

It took me quite long to learn this ;_; If I had read your tutorial I'm sure it would have been easier >.<


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sugarbyte

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Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2004, 06:29:34 PM »

Ok, im REALLY new to php and im sooooo eager to learn! but I still don't understand how youre supposed to connect two pages together. Do you think you could simplify some stuff ?.. I don't understand also how php works and what its " purpose" is... for example css would apply to the whole page... what is php's purpose? And When you save the document made on notepad... do you save it as a .php? Thanks! 8)


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Melfina

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Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2004, 07:44:37 PM »

Hmm... let's see... I'll try to explain it as well as I can, and I think that won't be much ><

PHP is just different from html. It's another language, though, of course, you can use html in it. It's mostly used to make mySQL connections and such.

This tutorial is about the php include function. What that does is breaking your normal html page into 3 parts: the top part of your html common on all pages, the content part and the other bottom part of your layout that is also common in all pages.

If you use html... what happens if you want to change a link from your navigation?? you need to change ALL the pages (unless you use iframes). To avoid this we use php include that keeps the common code on all pages in a sepparate file (that can be of many extensions: .txt, .php, .inc ...) and call it in all content pages with this code: <? include('file.php'); ?>

...So let's say that you want to display a piece of code on all pages and you want to be able to edit it many times... you don't want to edit all pages everytime... well, we would write that piece of code in notepad (this is just a simple example, you would do that with the whole layout):

<a href="whatever"><img src="image.gif" border="0"></a>

We would save that as file.php. But... how do we display that piece of code on the pages? just placing this code in the pages in the place you want that displayed:

<? include('file.php'); ?>

What would happen doing that is that it would automatically add that piece of code that's saved in file.php into your pages. The only condition is that all pages need to have the .php extension in order to work the include.

Maybe you can try reading the tutorial again now to see if you understand something else now :S

This is a really baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad explanation... I can't even understand it myself ><


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sugarbyte

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Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2004, 09:34:25 PM »

Thanks so much! It makes alot more sense now!! ^___^


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Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2004, 07:15:48 PM »

The include(); function will just make the requested file be included with that file. It helps if you want to have a cleaner php code. It also helps to have a better template system, like easier to change layouts or something like that. My site for instance doesnt do that... but it makes the coding look much cleaner and easier to read.

Sometimes you dont have to have the parenthesis. it can be

Code:

<? include 'file.php'; ?>

Yet you still need the ";" as it parses it. without it you will get a parse error >.<


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meganduong

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Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2006, 08:11:20 PM »

This is a really great tutorial. One thing I am still confused about is where would you upload your images that you're gonna be using for your layout?


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Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2006, 12:35:54 PM »

There are plenty of places that you can upload images at. http://www.photobucket.com is just one of them. ^^ It's the one I use most of the time, but if you ask around, I'm sure other people can refer you to others. =)


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mizuiro

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Re: Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2007, 07:01:46 AM »

Quote from: meganduong on April 26, 2006, 08:11:20 PM

This is a really great tutorial. One thing I am still confused about is where would you upload your images that you're gonna be using for your layout?

You might want to try out the following free image hosting (other than Photobucket):

If this small list doesn't satisfy you, you can try checking out these pages:


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digitalwings

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Re: Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2007, 07:00:05 AM »

Am I official in love with this tutorial1 I have been trying for quite some time now to get a hang of this PHP thing. Michelle , you clarified it so well. I will tell everyone who wants help with PHP about this tutorial!


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Zukin

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Re: Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2007, 05:43:00 PM »

I don`t know about php, but i want to learn. I understand this. But that link calls a php code?


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Re: Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2007, 11:19:20 PM »

What link would you be talking about?


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sandra2018

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Re: Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2007, 01:46:11 PM »

just wondering how does the whole layout thing work once you are done? and how can u use divs in this instead of tables?


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Re: Tutorial: PHP include

« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2008, 07:21:45 AM »

i'm already done with my layout.. i labeled it index.html.. so if i open it with notepad, there's a bit of a code there.. will i replace that code with your codes?


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